“There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment... I cannot myself feel that either in matter of wisdom or in matter of virtue Christ stands quite as high as some other people known to history. I think I should put Buddha and Socrates above Him in those respects.” ― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays
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Thursday, January 21, 2021
Hell
The further from childhood I get, the fewer people I meet who worry about—or even believe in—... the "punitive afterlife." But the Hell here on earth—the one that the preachers promised would lose in the end—hasn't gone anywhere. NYer
“There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment... I cannot myself feel that either in matter of wisdom or in matter of virtue Christ stands quite as high as some other people known to history. I think I should put Buddha and Socrates above Him in those respects.” ― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays
“There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment... I cannot myself feel that either in matter of wisdom or in matter of virtue Christ stands quite as high as some other people known to history. I think I should put Buddha and Socrates above Him in those respects.” ― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays
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