krazykidd said:
First of all , this ISN'T a religious debate, I don't care if your atheist or buddist or catholic. This is a Hypothetical question . So we are going to assume that Heaven and Hell exists for the sake of the thread. Also purgatory doesn'T count , it's one or the other.
Now if heaven and hell exists , and you were to suddenly die right now , where do you think you'll be sent and why ?
Personally i would be sent to hell, i have done ( and argubly still doing ) some terrible things in the past. Sure i'm not a murderer or a rapist nor am i a pedophile, but i have done quite a few repulsive things in my lifetime .
What does pedophilia have to do with anything? Are you equating pedophilia with sexual molestation (of a child)? Are you equating something that you have no control over (who you are sexually attracted to, however messed up it may be) with something that you have absolute control over (who you diddle against their will or by using coercion)? Heck, I bet there are young-child molesters out there that aren't even pedophiles, not having much of a sexual attraction to pre-pubescent kids but doing it for other messed up reasons.
Please don't equate the two. They're quite different, and it's wrong to decry a person as a child molester just because he (or, I suppose, she) happens to find little kids attractive. It's not something you exactly have control over.
ANYWAY...back on topic, I can't rightly answer this question without some info about this god. Is this heaven/hell permanent? If so, nobody could go to hell if the god is just, or everyone would go there if the god was an asshole. As far as morality goes, I certainly was a bad person when I was in high school; I was a giant dick to the girlfriends that trusted me.
However, I have certainly learned from those experiences and no longer act like a huge prick. I left all of that high school bullshit behind, (and have had my karmatic debt repayed two-fold, easily) so for that, I guess I'd go to heaven right now, if we're talking about heavens not ruled by egotistical assholes (that is, the ones believed in by most major religions, that would ban you for not believing in it or for stuff you have no control over).
Wow, this really turned into a wall of text. Feel free to gloss over and make strawmen out of bits and pieces of this.
*Edited for clarity**Also edit to add this:* Yeah, the whole idea of heaven as far as Christianity is concerned is so incredibly insane that I wouldn't even call it heaven. Eternal punishment for a very short lifetime of not-quite-perfect living? No one deserves an eternity of punishment. Lifetimes, maybe, but not eternal. In all heavens/hells that make sense (or are not evil by nature), hell would be empty or temporary.
