Are you a Good Person? I respond to a YoutTube

I saw this you tube video and felt the muse...This arguement is popular in certain circles and frankly it sickens me.  I needed to write some response.



Doesn't it bother you that you're religion has to convince people they are bad people, indeed worthy of eternal torture sanctioned by an infallibly just judicator, for relatively minor or non existent crimes?
I remember being a child and sitting in church, unable to grasp how I could have done anything that would constitute a sin.  I was a  kid, I had hurt no one, stolen nothing, by all accounts innocent as one could possibly be...and yet here were adults trying to convince me I was a disgusting wretched peice of shit.  That unless I invoked the mercy of the Creator, worshiped him and played upon his vanity so that he would stay his hand, the supernatural force that loved me and made me who I was would be so repulsed by my deformity he would have no choice but to send me into a Tartarus filled with abominations and demons.  Unless I gave into the church I was as bad as Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and the Child Rapist who lived at the end of the next block.   How could anyone look at another person, yet alone a child and say that for telling a lie, for saying "no mommy we havn't gotten your birthday present yet" death is too good for them.

How?

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Question...Have you done something bad? Don't answer cause I know you have.

Truth hurts, that doesn't mean you should turn a blind eye to it.

Guys like Believer and I, we are NOT sorry for hurting your feelings with it. We all have done something bad, we "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" - Romans 3:23

How is our good news really good news unless there is a bad news. The bad news your a sinner and there is a hell. Good news, God loves us and wants to save us.\

I am going to answer; No.

I have made mistakes, but I have not done something deserving of a hell.

I treat others fairly.
I am faithful, honest
I try to bring happiness to others
I try not to take more than my share
I believe in supporting my community
I believe in beauty and art.
I respect life, liberty, rights and on the whole, the feelings of others.

and yet...

I would lie to save a refuge
I would steal to feed an orphan.
Using god's name in vain originally refereed to oaths, I would break an oath or an unjust law to help others. I would reneg on a responsibility if doing so would bring more bad than good. I would not 'just follow orders'.
I would swear, which is what you're talking about to make a point. I don't believe in magic words.  I would tell a hate filled man, like the judge who recently turned down an interracial couple from wedding that he's a "Goddamn fuck" because he warrents such language. 
I lust and am unrepentantly sexual...as if my girlfriend, we are happy together. I would lust to make   her happy.

I would break every one of your commandments to help someone, and I can think of cases where almost everyone would be just and necessary.

 

In order to be saved must I let the predator pray on victim?  The hungry starve?  Be a eunuch?  Make others unhappy?  Not use all the power I have to fulfill responsibilities to my fellows?  Such a creature would not only be inhuman but would be inhumane.

Is it just for your God to condemn me and my ilk for this? Would he save a selfish monster who repented? A believing racist? A murderous inquisitor? A lecherous witch burner? If he gathers real sinners as saints and casts good men into the pit he is a sorry judge indeed. 

 

I will not repent for being who I am.  I will not repent for caring, for thinking, for loving.  If You're right then, Yes, I will be tortured forever, and you will be saved.  Not because you are better or nicer, but because you agreed to play ball. 

If you're wrong...then you'll have sacrificed your freewill, your mind, your empathy and your humanity for a dream, a ghost of a promise.  

Either way; As long as I live these knees will not bow to an ogre as cruel as thy god.

If that is not to the maker's criteria than I will suffer righteously in hell.    Take what comfort from that that you will.