What if the 12 disciples got it all wroung... and heavean is at the center of the earth and it feels like hawaii but the water is lava and hell is in the sky... with no air... and people cant walk 2 steps without falling through a cloud.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone else reach the same conclusion as I have, independently of myself. All those drug-induced hallucinations must have blasted your consciousness up to my level for the five minutes or so that you were writing this. As The Shaw says, God would not condemn a man for doing what he thought was right, and in fact God would not condemn any man (being omnibenevolent). Condemnation is something that we can do only to ourselves, and evil, then, is just what we ourselves deem morally abhorrent. People do not follow their own moral codes or do what is right according to their own standards, which does leave us with the existence of evil in the form of hypocrisy, but God would not punish someone for evil. Punishment doesn't factor into the equation at all, in fact, because hell is not punishment. The devil does not exist in the sense that Protestants would have you believe; i.e. pointy-tailed red dude with a pitchfork who's in charge of running hell. Hell is neither eternal nor a place, but is instead a state of being, brought on simply by refusing to accept God. What place does the devil have in any of this? None, that I can imagine, except as a metaphor for self-doubt or something along those lines.
I try and tell my fundamentalist christian friends and family members that hell is a state of being and not a place and they think I'm the devil. Shit pisses me off. And pot doesn't make you hallucinate, it just makes you euphoric and stupid. And I'm actually a pretty smart guy.
