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"I am already going to hell for an eternity, what do I care about Unforgiveable sins?"

VorpyVorpy
edited 2011-04-30 20:19:16 in Philosophy
☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
Note: This thread is about Catholics. Preferably ones that live in the Country, and not the city.

So concerning this discussion I was eavesdropping on at a Subway, one of the responses a girl made to rebute the whole aspect of going to hell for aborting her baby was "I am already going to hell forever. There is no difference between one eternity, and a million eternities. I don't care what I do next."

And I thought about the context of this. Can the general rules-of-thumb concerning hell be revised to punish people for multiple eternities? Once somebody is going to hell, how do you punish them more? I know the Divine Comedy suggested more extreme rings of hell for more volatile sinners, but we all know that is all metaironic fantasy fiction to appeal to the religious satire genre.

In your set of beliefs, if any, how would you punish somebody for multiple cases of extreme crimes?

Comments

  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    edited 2011-04-30 20:21:29
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Wait, how do you get multiple eternities? It's forever!

    IMO, I would deviate between torturing them for infinity and forcing them to relive every single bad thing they'ver ever done, repeatedly, from the victims' perspective. 
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    yes, "multiple eternities" is a nonsensical statement.
  • VorpyVorpy
    edited 2011-04-30 20:22:21
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    Apparently there are some sins that earn you an eternity in hell (ending an unborn child's life, murder, rape, extreme heinous treachery, opposing God, pretending to be God to earn favors from mortals, taking your own life), but I never understood what would stop you from doing ALL of them instead of just one, except for maybe suicide, implying you did that one first.
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    All sins, regardless of severity, will get you an eternity in hell, if they aren't forgiven.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    Easy, you spend your time in hell in two eternities simultaniously.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    ...Have I completely lost it, or have we had this exact thread before?
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    I didn't make a thread about this yet, so no Khwarizmi.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    Deja vu, I guess.

    Coulda sworn it was familiar, though.  It wasn't one of the ones where you blanked the OP?

    Nevermind.  Carry on.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    I might have posted this on Tnoph, but then again yeah I probably nuked it because I was afraid of it devolving into a shitstorm.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    I think I've heard something about there being different kinds of infinity in mathematics. I wouldn't know much about it, myself, though.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    edited 2011-04-30 20:57:25
    That's something different, though.
  • TheMightyAnonymTheMightyAnonym
    ~♥YES♥~! I *AM* a ~♥cupcake♥~! ^_^
    It is implied in the Bible that those in Hell will be treated differently based on what they have done. People usually look at Revelations and state that everyone goes in a lake of fire and all that jazz, but it should be noted that they are in there because the worshiped the beast and wind up suffering the full wrath of God.

    It's more than likely that things are different in Hell for different people.

    Of course, it's rather presumptuous to claim that you know *anything* about how the afterlife works or how God judges people, so I digress.
  • TuefelHundenIVTuefelHundenIV
    Patrol Time
    "If sex is sin and sin is forgiven lets begin"  Would be the common smart ass response to that attitude :p

    If someone feels they are damned no matter what they do they have little incentive to change ever.
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