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    18 hours ago

    Any “evil” suffered in current life will be compensated with reward in afterlife.

    The concept tends to fall apart with modern Christianity where everyone just goes to heaven and hell is written out.

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      That doesn’t work. People with crap lives often can’t meet the standards of goodness that many forms of Christianity need for you to be qualified for heaven

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        If there is no evil how can there be good?

        If the purpose of life is to be a test, how can you test without challenges (evil)?

        The crux of the problem is once again the modernized version of Christianity. Where hell has been written out and Adolf Hitler goes to heaven because “Jesus died for his sins”.

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      The concept tends to fall apart with modern Christianity where everyone just goes to heaven and hell is written out.

      Huh? From what I can tell Christians are more fixated on hell than ever now. Listen to them talk about gay/trans people, Palestinians, women who get abortions, or literally anyone who isn’t Christian, and it’s clear that they’re really excited about the idea that their god will torture those people for all eternity while they get to watch from heaven. You’ll even get catholics and protestants both thinking they’re the only ones going to heaven and the “wrong” kind of Christian goes to hell because of technicalities like whether you go to confession or not or whether praying to Mary is idolatry. Some outright say that it’s okay to kill gay/trans people, Palestinians, etc, because they’re damned anyway and god doesn’t give a shit about them.

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        Most we observe in the media either the kumbaya Christians, where Jesus died for everyones sins and everyone goes to heaven. Or the MAGA Christians who believe treating the poor like dirt is owning the libs.

        The question about evil existing is rather easy to answer but all the Christian internal discourse would be more confusing. I don’t have much experience with it but

        technicalities like whether you go to confession or not or whether praying to Mary is idolatry.

        Wouldn’t that directly violate the first commandment?