I offer a comment for clarity:  you have said several times I'm a "fundamentalist" - that is actually rather far from what I believe according to the definition of what a fundamentalist believes (as an aside, based on my understanding, a fundamentalist tends to cherry pick verses rather t...

So, in summary… God makes laws He knows I cannot follow because of what a human 6,000 years ago who is not me did, and then He says I'll go to Hell to be forever tortured as a result, but then says that because He actually loves me (:o), he sent His only son Jesus (who is actually also Him) to die ...

The "what kind of loving God" would punish, etc., is similar to the loving parent who tells his children to do something that he knows is for the child’s own good, but the child disobeys because he thinks he knows more than the parent, and then the parent responds with a just punishment. ...

Welcome to the angry atheists forum, invst65.  What does your belief system look like these days? I don't consider myself an atheist. Actually I don't have any identifiable belief system and feel no compulsion to have one. The only thing I know for sure is that I began questioning the Christian bel...

MachineGhost wrote: If these were skilled immigrants, I'd say its no big deal.

Do you have experience of competing with "skilled immigrants" for your livelihood?

Just askin'

Pointedstick wrote: Sounds like you might be going to Hell, invst65.
I mean, welcome to the forum!

Hell is the only power that Christianity has today.

So, yes, then. It may be incomprehensible to us, but the scriptures seem to make it pretty clear that most humans are going to Hell when they die, no? I have to stand up for "the scriptures" here, even though I don't believe, as Mountaineer apparently does, that the Bible is the "Wor...