spoonerprince:

You know what I absolutely fucking loathe? The western christian concept of eternal damnation.

Like??? You wanna know what the Sumerians believed the afterlife was? Sitting. On a rock. Peacefully. Forever. The earliest Jewish concept of the afterlife? Laying deep within the earth in eternal rest. Egyptians were the first to implement the idea that punishment; if your heart was /really really/ bad, it would be eaten by a lion-crocodile. Otherwise you would get to work a field forever (unless you were a Pharoah, you became a god then.) Similarly the Greeks had the idea that unless you were extremely bad (like murdered people for fun/were unnecessarily cruel/pissed off the gods) you’d get to stand in a field forever amongst your loved ones.

And it doesn’t help that our concept of religion is fucked up to begin with, no one else treated it as something you’d have to live and breathe lest you burn in hell for all eternity. I hate christian values mainly for this reason; the dogma, the threats, the hate that the christian god will inflict upon you for eternity if you do nit heed his command. I hate it so much and I wish everyone could see how antagonistic it is to the message of love and forgiveness that Jesus stood for.