Hellfire Jesus
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
-George Orwell
According to Christian propaganda, Jesus was a kind and loving person. He loved mankind so much that he was willing to die for our sins. For this, the Church argues, he deserves the gratitude of being loved in return.
It is remindful of a parent who would give up their life to push a child away from an onrushing car. Or of a soldier who would sacrifice his life to protect his country. Or of a fireman who would risk his life to save someone from a burning building. To give up ones' life for the innocent is certainly an admirable trait; not many of us have that capability.
There are crucial differences between the kind of sacrifices described above and Jesus' sacrifice. Once a person gives up his life, there can be no expectation of further reward beyond knowing in the last seconds that the saved will continue to live-Jesus wants gratitude in perpetuity. Typically, what motivates human sacrifice is the thought of protecting the innocent-Jesus died to protect evil.
Actually, as a god, Jesus didn't really die. It was just his human form that died. On that basis, his death was a sham. Because God didn't get the obedience he thought he deserved, he denounced the human race guilty of evil. So he tried a second time to get the human race to worship him by pretending to die for what he hated. It's a fraud, an admission of failure and a perversion of justice.
The self evident" fact that the bulk of humanity is not evil is the degree of complexity at which human society functions in the twenty first century. Ethically, it is evil at the margins, but it takes a huge degree of social cooperation for it to work. The amazing part about it is that it works and continues to expand without being orchestrated by a central authority (Jesus hated wealth). If humanity was universally evil as Jesus saw it, it would have self destructed a long time ago.
7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil. (John 7:7)
Christianity has a lot in common with Communism. The Communists had some bad ideas on how society should work, so they set themselves as the arbiters of right behavior. Because their reasoning was fallacious, their methods of changing behavior were necessarily brutal. If there is one lesson to be learned from history, it is that coercion always fails in the long run. It has been the ruin of every empire.
Like Communism, Christian morality is founded on the principle of obedience, which can't work without a means of enforcement. Thus, the character of Jesus reflects what you would expect from a phony with a god complex. If he can't get his way, he gets angry and bluffs with threatening images of a fiery hell.
46"Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you? (Luke 6:46)
30He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. (Matt. 12:30)
14You are my friends if you do what I command you. (John 15:14)
In the passage below Jesus tells us that God did not send him to condemn the world. We condemn ourselves by not believing in him. How is that? It's like a murderer saying his victim made him do it by resisting.
17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him
might be saved.
18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already,
because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:17-18)
In the collection of passages below, I combed through the Gospels for demonstrations of anger and for threatening language with regards to hell. They should dispel any false notions that he was kind and loving. This is not the language of someone with any degree of objectivity. It's the language of an immature jerk, a petty tyrant and the most overrated celebrity in human history!
John the Baptist decrees Jesus as the man who will burn the chaff-unbelievers-with unquenchable fire.
12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." (Matt. 3:12)
Anger will make you liable to be sent to the hell of fire.
22"But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother shall be liable to the council, and whoever says, 'You fool!' shall be liable to the hell of fire." (Matt. 5:22)
It is better to cut off your offending body parts than have your whole body go into hell.
29"If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you
lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
30And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better that
you lose one of your
members than that your whole body go into hell." (Matt. 5:29-30; Mark 9:43-47)
Bad fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
19"Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire." (Matt. 7:19)
Jesus instructed his disciples to go among the towns. If they do not listen, Sodom and Gomorrah will be more tolerable than the day of judgment.
14And if any one will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet
as you leave that house or town.
15Truly, I say to you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and
Gomorrah than for that town. (Matt. 10:14-15)
Do not fear those who can kill the body and not the soul, but fear him who can destroy both the soul and body in hell.
28"And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell." (Matt. 10:28; Luke 12:5)
He held entire cities liable for judgment when he couldn't get a quorum to repent.
20Then he began to upbraid the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they
did not repent.
21"Woe to you, Chorazin woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works done
in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
22But I tell you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for Tyre and
Sidon than for you.
23And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades. For if
the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
24But I tell you that it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of
Sodom than for you." (Matt. 11:20-24; Luke 10:13-15)
Blasphemers will not be forgiven when the time comes.
31Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the
Spirit will not be forgiven.
32And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the
Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come. (Matt. 12:31-32)
On the judgment day a brood of vipers will be condemned for every careless world they uttered.
34You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance
of the heart the mouth speaks.
35The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil
treasure brings forth evil.
36I tell you, on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they
utter;
37for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." (Matt. 12:34-37)
At the close of the age, the Son of man (Jesus) will send angels to gather all the sinners and evildoers and throw them into the furnace of fire where men will weep and gnash their teeth.
40Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age.
41The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of
sin and all evildoers,
42and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their
teeth. (Matt. 13:40-42)
When judgment day comes the angels will separate the evil from the righteous and make them suffer in fiery hell.
49"So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the
righteous,
50and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth."
(Matt. 13:49-50)
Peter did not want Jesus to go to Jerusalem where he would risk suffering and death. Jesus called him Satan, and hindrance and not on the side of God but of men.
23But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you are not on the side of God, but of men." (Matt. 16:21-23)
When he returns he will repay every man for what they have done.
27For the Son of man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every man for what he has done. (Matt. 16:27)
Better to cut off your body parts that cause you to sin than to be thrown into the fiery hell.
8And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for
you to enter life maimed or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.
9And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better for you
to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire. (Matt. 18:8-9, Mark 9:43-47)
Matthew 23 has one of his worst temper tantrums. You scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Your teachings will make a proselyte twice as much of child of hell as you. You blind fools! You blind men! Woe to you! You serpents, you brood of vipers, you are going to be sentenced to hell.
15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and
land to make a
single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
17You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?
19You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
27"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which
outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
27"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which
outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
33You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell? (Matt. 23: 15, 17, 19, 27, 33)
Depart into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
41Then he will say to those at his left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; (Matt. 25:41)
He looked around them with anger.
5"And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man "Stretch out your hand." (Mark 3:5)
Believers will be saved; nonbelievers will be condemned.
16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. (Mark 16:16)
Jesus appointed seventy men to go preaching from town to town. They were instructed to curse the towns if they weren't well received.
10But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say,
11'Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off against you; nevertheless know
this, that the kingdom of God has come near.'
12I tell you, it shall be more tolerable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
13"Woe to you, Chorazin woe to you, Beth-saida! for if the mighty works done in you had
been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
14But it shall be more tolerable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.
15And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.
16"He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him
who sent me." (Luke 10:10-16)
A Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not wash before dinner. Over a simple statement, Jesus went into a conniption.
38The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner.
39And the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of extortion and
wickedness.
40You fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?
41But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, everything is clean
for you.
42"But woe to you Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice
and the love of God; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
43Woe to you Pharisees! for you love the best seat in the synagogues and salutations
in the market places.
44Woe to you! for you are like graves which are not seen, and men walk over them
without knowing it." (Luke 11:38-44)
He came to cast fire upon earth and wishes it was already kindled.
49"I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled! (Luke 12:49)
Repent or perish.
2And he answered them,
"Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they
suffered thus?
3I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. (Luke 13:2-3)
When the Son of Man (Jesus) comes it will be like the days of Noah. When they don't expect it, it will rain fire and sulphur and destroy them.
26As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of
the Son of man.
27They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day when Noah
entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28Likewise as it was in the days of Lot-they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they
planted, they built,
29but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom fire and sulphur rained from heaven and destroyed
them all-
30so will it be on the day when the Son of man is revealed. (Luke 17:26-30)
Whoever does not want him to reign over them should be brought to him and killed.
27But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.'" (Luke 19:27)
He was at the beginning with God; all things were made through him and with him. It implies that Jesus created hell.
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2He was in the beginning with God;
3all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.
4In him was life, and the life was the light of men. (John 1:1-4)
You will die for your sins unless you believe in Jesus.
24I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he." (John 8:24)
If a man does not obey him he will be thrown into the fire and burned.
6If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. (John 15:6)
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