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David Armstrong's avatar

I remember Rooney once earnestly saying on social media that things by virtue of their existence do not participate in God’s Being in order to do so. This was long ago, long before ever this particular scuffle was kicked up. I have ever since operated from the assumption that his metaphysics are fundamentally incoherent. That’s fine: plenty of people have incoherent metaphysics. But it was the sermon he preached implying that the true tragedy of a particular child’s death was that child’s parent losing their faith in hell that made me realize that he’s also, deep, deep down, possessed of a fundamentally inhuman approach to basic human relationships and feelings. One does not need metaphysics to intuit that his interest in this topic and perhaps in religion in general is motivated by a layered psychosis.

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A. Roswo's avatar

I still don’t understand why people are so fixated on defending eternal torment in Hell. I thought it would’ve been an idea people would rather struggle to believe but what people struggle with believing is God redeeming all of creation. Why is unending torment such an attractive idea? Honestly, it doesn’t make any sense to me.

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