According to your beliefs though we only have this life correct? When we die we fade to nothing and our physical bodies decompose. If a parent were to lock their child up for the rest of his life due to a behavioral issue or crime or what not is that not condemning them for their eternity?
Correct and that life sentence doesn't come easy for both parties but you're failing to see what a cosmic eternity is. It doesn't compare to our rather short lifespans. We put people in prison to protect others to the best of our abilities but do you think eternal punishment is the best God (a being of infinite power) can do? If we had infinite power (or better choices for dealing with criminals) we'd probably do better than our rather pathetic life sentences. I dunno.. something like behavior modification seems right up our alley as humans.
Either way, God has access to infinite choices for dealing with people who fail to make the cut yet chooses eternal punishment over many other choices available to him. What's worse is the eternal punishment does nothing to solve the issue but merely buries it under a shroud of eternal agony.
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I hear about parents in other countries getting rid of babies by throwing them away because they are born female and that won't help them take care of their families.
This is caused by religious belief in many parts of the world coupled with social boulders regarding treatment women including Christianity. How do you feel about the Catholic Church's abysmal treatment of women? Why can't they be cardinals or the Pope?
Guess how those boulders are being chipped away? The forces of logic and reason in this age undermining the archaic beliefs of previous eras. People are realizing it makes no sense to limit women when they have equal capabilities to men and we'll only get better so long as logic and reason resist the patriarchal forces of religion.
