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"I believe that God understands what drives us to do the horrible things we do and that because of that there is no hell, because there are no sins that cannot be forgiven."

The Bible says that the one unforgiveable sin is "Blasphemy against the holy spirit", I don't know what that means but i think that it is probably nihilism, the ultra-cynical viewpoint that morality is just a concept and has no reality.
For a while when I was a teenager I believed I was predestined to go to hell and burn for eternity because I hated God for wishing damnation on my non-believing father and sister. After a while I began to believe in the catholic idea of purgatory; that we spend a while being made suitable for acceptance into heaven. I have wondered what would be left of me if I was cleansed of error. Perhaps the punishment for sin is to loose identity, like a lobotomy of the spirit.

But what is morality? People have had to fight for our liberty, to kill for us. Who is the better person, the conscientious objector with his goosefeather and bloodless hands or the soldier who took on the burden of his guilt by fighting for the rights of both.
To make a society of peace lovers what is needed is a war. All that it needs to make a war is a side that will back down for long enough that they will be oppressed and eventually have to fight back with vengeance. The cycle never seems to end.

If there is a God I want to be judged not on my beliefs but my actions. My actions are not too good and I am too lazy to defend the rights of those in the third world but the bible tells me if I don't believe in God then he won't believe in me.

Still, I can't play a harp..

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