On Divine Grace and Forgiveness

 

I wrote something similar about pedophilic Jeffery Dahmer that not only abused and killed young boys, he ate them. Like sliced them like beef and kept in his fridge.

And when he was eventually imprisoned, he repented, got baptized by a priest and from many indications, was having his Bible sessions daily with the priest and changing his ways??. And I just can't wrap my head around it. Sure, Jesus told the other thief, "today you'd be with me in paradise" and all of that but genuinely, it doesn't fucking make sense that just repenting absolves people of punishment. 

When I was younger, I'd be spitting fire and brimstone arguing against the Catholicism belief in the purgatory but as an adult, that is more logical to me than someone lying just before demise would immediately castigate them to hell. While the worst of the human demons could repent and everything is then a clean slate.

So if someone like fucking Jeffery Dahmer is going to heaven, then miss me with such place. I'd rather be partying in hell with Michael Jackson (abi the church visions paraphernalia we used to read said they saw him in hell) 🫠🫠

Beliefs like this reinforce why my faith wavered until it currently is barely existent. Cos you possibly can't be comparing pedophillia and cannibalism to the menial "supposed" sins people do daily. In what world are they equivalent?

So this blind faith and forgiveness isn't something that seats with my soul. It just doesn't fucking make sense. But again, we can't prove the whole heaven and hell existence hence why every day counts. Because if I don't know where I was before I was born, before consciousness, I sure as shit won't have the consciousness on my demise.

And the whole brouhaha about burning entirely in hell, the same Bible talks about the flesh being left of the world. So if it's the flesh that feels the pain, and it's only the soul that transcends, what exactly is burning then?

Let's not forget Satan was a fallen angel, Lucifer Morningstar whose crime was daring to ask for equality and go against the order in existence. In any case, he was merely a rebel. So I'm not quite convinced he's the instigator for all the crimes he's been alluded to. Human beings act of free will and being all like, "the devil made me do it" is lazy, cowardly and denouncing responsibility.

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