SkyBlueFlux said:The way I always saw it.
If some of the genuinely good people I know (people who have spent their lives helping others) are 'sent to hell' because they can't bring themselves to believe in something without proper evidence, then I'd quite willingly follow them into eternal damnation.
If heaven is some exclusive club for people who 'saw it coming' and everybody else was excluded, then I don't want to go to heaven. It seems a contradiction towards everything heaven is supposed to entail.
Either way, I don't believe in heaven and hell. I can't help but see it as 'wishful thinking' for people who can't stand the thought that when you die... you die.
No, seriously; hell doesn't exist in Christianity, it's a complete myth and misunderstanding of scripture. There is no basis for it in the Bible, and even the Pope admits it.