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asked:
Have you heard of Rob Bell and/or his book Love Wins? Quote: "It's been clearly communicated to many that this belief (in hell as conscious, eternal torment) is a central truth of the Christian faith and to reject it is, in essence, to reject Jesus. This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy" That eternal torment by a loving good is *insane* isn't strictly an atheist belief
TBH, one thing I thought about from time to time is that if you’ve got an adversary figure with real magic powers, it could fake a bunch of miracles and make a fake religion with a fake Word of God, and even influence the emotions of people to make them feel like they were getting a real connection out of that. And how would you know?
But just inserting a few sprinkles here and there in the right places of an ordinary holy book could be pretty effective.