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#1112116
tracer
Gee, you think the ancient people's experience with active volcanoes might have had something to do with how they got the idea for Hell?
2/8/2010 5:41:13 PM
#1112119
Tolpuddle Martyr
Why there it is, right underneath the flat Earth and the dome of the stars, oh wait...
2/8/2010 5:43:15 PM
#1112129
Berny
Dude, this is the 21st century. You have no excuse for being this fucking ignorant anymore.
2/8/2010 5:48:40 PM
#1112143
Mrs. Antichrist
Grasping at straws as usual.
2/8/2010 6:02:55 PM
#1112145
Smilodon
It's a shame people still believe crap like this in this day and age.
2/8/2010 6:03:45 PM
#1112161
MK
... Hell is now underwater? So sinners are now going to boiled for eternity rather than burned?
2/8/2010 6:22:44 PM
#1112164
Toob Wyrm
It's important to note that tube worms actually do die, they don't technically eat sulphur and you are a delusional muppet.
Seriously, how dare you reduce an incredibly diverse, complex and fascinating ecosystem to a bullshit justification of your insane beliefs.
2/8/2010 6:24:30 PM
#1112172
EllwyenDarwin
When I was told that worm thing when I was a kid it gave me nightmares.Now I just laugh until my ribs hurt.
2/8/2010 6:34:35 PM
#1112181
tracer
Isaiah wasn't talking about Hell.
Isaiah 66:24 is talking about a heap of dead bodies displayed openly on the Earth for other (living) people to see. God, according to Isaiah, is going to make the corpses of those who rebelled against Him never decompose, so that they will be "a sign for all time."
Later apologists, of course, had their own ideas....
2/8/2010 6:43:08 PM
#1112188
Anky
awesome.
2/8/2010 6:53:18 PM
#1112198
Tubeworms aren't like earthworms. At all. They also don't come anywhere close to living forever due to predation, the vents petering out or their own lifespan coming to an end.
And while brimstone is made of sulfur, sulfur isn't always brimstone. It does come in a gaseous form, too.
@tracer: Wait, what? I thought that the belief was that only the bodies of sinners decomposed and that the bodies of saints would be automatically preserved. I'm so confused...
2/8/2010 7:02:55 PM
#1112203
Papabear
No, hell would be living with the dolt who wrote that.
2/8/2010 7:06:46 PM
#1112214
Sasha
I don't remember the passage where the bible claims that hell is at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
2/8/2010 7:12:24 PM
#1112215
John_in_Oz
Half the time the Biblical Hell is the Greek 'hel', the shadowy underworld land of the afterlife, that all go to, virtuous and wicked alike.
2/8/2010 7:13:35 PM
#1112220
JohnTheAtheist
But of course those same scientists tell you that there is nothing down there but of course then they don't know what the fuck they are talking about, amirite?
2/8/2010 7:17:24 PM
#1112222
tracer
@ #1112198 :
The Old Testament God preserved anybody's corpse he wanted to, for any damned reason he pleased. Wanna make sure you get raised from the dead on Judgement Day? Better have your body buried without defilement, or there won't be a "you" to raise! Piss off Yahweh? He'll make an example of you by giving you a never-rotting corpse!
That's just the kind of wacky deity ol' YHWH is!
2/8/2010 7:19:01 PM
#1112224
JSS
“where their worm will never die.”
So these tubeworms, they're immortal?
2/8/2010 7:22:07 PM
#1112238
Thinking Allowed
Funny, I thought a hole dug in Siberia was the gateway to hell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91fNJ6CVASs
2/8/2010 7:42:07 PM
#1112243
Yama the Space Fish
I thought worm was an archaic word for dragon.
2/8/2010 7:48:33 PM
#1112251
tracer
Yama the Space Fish wrote:
"I thought worm was an archaic word for dragon."
That's "wyrm", with a "y". ;-)
The Isaiah passage he talks about is pretty clear: The worms in question are the kind of worms that eat a decomposing corpse. In Isaiah's vision, they never died out, because the corpses lasted eternally.
2/8/2010 8:03:09 PM
#1112278
EonBlueTriad
Man, that whole site is one big pile of fail.
2/8/2010 8:59:04 PM
#1112305
Zoo
If you think the biological use of sulfur has some connection to hell, I dare you to live without it.
2/8/2010 9:48:18 PM
#1112315
Antichrist
what kind of person is so bored in their life that they've got nothing better to do than make up this shit.
Then again my life is so boring I have nothing better to do than to mock it, so I guess I really can't talk.
2/8/2010 10:08:20 PM
#1112319
SleepNeed
I got a headache reading that site. Now I need to take some Advil.
2/8/2010 10:13:40 PM
#1112321
WMDKitty
*snicker*
The only portal to hell I've seen is my bowel....
2/8/2010 10:15:52 PM
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