[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by jambutty

That is the point.

People believe in what someone else believed in.

Everything we experience and learn in life is based on something which others experienced and learned before us. Initially perhaps that's true about religion but it isn't true about faith. Personally I used to look at people who believed what I now believe and sort of envied them but didn't believe they were right, if that makes sense. I didn't base my beliefs on others, not even the Biblical accounts really. I just thought it must be great to be that sure about something. I read as much as I could, and still do. None of it was worth tuppence though until I came to the reality of it for myself. Once I had that personal knowledge and faith it all made sense, but it isn't something you can give to anyone else or convince anyone of by logic, any more so than anyone could ever convince me otherwise now no matter how much they may ridicule.

Accyman, why would you want to go to hell? Seriously, if the day comes and you find out that there really is a heaven and a hell and you have chosen the latter by your own free wil, are you really going to be happy with that choice?