Reply #198: What you do should be called 'cacangelism' - "spreading the Bad News"

[muriel_volestrangler]

because it must be the most unwelcome thing anyone has ever heard.

"You know human nature? How we all get angry with each other occasionally? Well, a single instance of anger is enough to get you eternally damned, never mind how much love or help you show your fellow humans before or after. And by the way, before I told you this, there was a chance you wouldn't be judged this way - but now you know, that's it. You're in The Dock, awaiting judgement.

The only way out of this is to believe something written in a book. The book says to forget human ideas of good and evil - just believe that there's a Supreme Being which demands infinite punishment for finite wrong, but a part of that god underwent the infinite punishment for anyone who believes it's true - though the infinite punishment only lasted a couple of days. The god doesn't have a choice about this punishment - it has to be undergone. There's no free will in that for the god.

The Purpose of Life isn't to enjoy it, or to help others enjoy it - it's to believe what a book says. Other books may be available, but they're irrelevant. Since the book was written, several centuries ago, human existence, both in reality and in some infinite life, has revolved around people believing it over any other book, or their experience in life."

It would seem to me that anyone preventing a missionary spreading that message is doing someone good - in the world view of the missionary, they're keeping people innocent, while in reality, they're stopping the spread of a depressing antisocial meme.