Do people who die as atheists deserve eternal damnation?

Nobody deserves eternal damnation. Or any kind of damnation. Enlightened people and enlightened societies now recognise that punishing someone is a lousy way of getting them to change their mind about what they did, and an even lousier way of getting other people to change their minds about doing what the first person did. The main positive …

Why aren’t more people afraid of having to spend eternity in a lake of fire?

Because there’s absolutely no reason for anyone at all to think that they will spend eternity ‘in a lake of fire’—or anywhere else, for that matter. The particular religious stories which make this claim are not supported by direct observation or by any remotely reliable accounts from identifiable individuals. They are just as incredible as the hundreds …

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