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So do you enjoy watching bad people get whats coming to them? Do you like when the bad guy is punished? Do you like when evil men are brought to justice?

I would not enjoy watching anyone burn in hell for eternity, no. Nobody deserves that, not Stalin, not Hitler, not Nero, not anybody. The worst part is that, according to the bible, those guys will be burning right alongside people like Ghandi, Aristotle and Bill Gates. Where is the justice in that?

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Whats different about that and what god says?

God is omnipotent. He doesnt have the right to blame anyone but himself if anything goes wrong anywhere in the universe because, by virtue of his omnipotence, he knew it would go wrong before he ever created it. Any judgement God chooses to pass, he does so by first allowing the thing deserving of judgement to happen.

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People are all evil.

People are animals, no more inherently good or evil than other animals.

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We are made right through Christ.

And yet prior to the 20th century, no government, religion or other entity had been an active participant in more deaths than christian churches. It is estimated that the catholic church alone has killed over 50 million people in the last 2,000 years directly or indirectly.

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So yes he administers punishment but isn't that what the criminal justice system basically does? Does that make judges sadists for sending murderers and pedophiles to prison?

No, the criminal justice system punishes individuals based on the extent of the crime and on the premise that they had the choice whether or not to commit the crime. God punishes us for eternity for crimes he knew we would commit before we were ever born. That isnt justice.

This post was edited on 4/21/14 at 12:20 pm