Who Gets Saved From Perdition, and Why?
A reader asked me if I feel sorry for the billions of people believed to be burning in hell because they had the bad luck to be born on this Earth before the birth of Christ, and thus were unable to accept Him as their savior.
Actually, there are other groups of supposedly eternally tortured souls that equally evoke my pity, especially the approximately 9 million kids who die each year before their 5th birthday, largely via malnutrition and the diseases that derive from it. They were unfortunately born on parts of this planet in which Christianity is unknown, e.g., Africa and Asia. That’s 6.1 billion people, a bit over three-quarters of the planet’s total (7.9 billion).
These children are roasting in the same hell that’s roasting, for all eternity, with Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Gandhi, and all the other intellectual and moral giants that our civilization has produced over the millennia.
The concept of hell is one that can only be accepted by our most cruel and stupid.
This is funny, I admit, but I don’t think most people have a problem with hunters who eat what they kill.
The dude is NRA-endorsed in the great state of Missouri.
We’ve all seen evidence of the current trend to label everything we don’t like politically as extreme or radical. The pro-lifers talk about Biden’s “extreme position on abortion.” The NRA talks about Biden’s “radical position on gun control.”
Here’s a comedian with a frighteningly accurate description of life in America. His bit, “
Spot on. Who hasn’t observed this in his own life?
Earlier this week, a Florida man and his three adult sons were convicted in a Florida court of 
As explained here, it appears that 
I understand how the author of the meme here feels, but two points if I may:
This from 18th Century theologian and founder of Methodism John Wesley.
