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Besides the fact that I'm already scared of Hell, it bothers me immensely that the procedure is called ECT. That acronym is the same one that philosophers use to describe Hell: Eternal Conscious Torment.

I don't want to go to Hell, but I hate God. I can't help it. If I beg him to save me, will he listen? I don't have time to learn how to love him, even if I thought that were possible. And if I ask him to help me love him, he'll know that it's not because I actually want to love him, but only because I'm terrified of Hell.

I repent from everything, but I have to admit, it's only because I don't want to go to Hell. I honestly don't feel bad about lust or coveting. I do feel bad about some things I've done in the past, but I honestly don't agree with God about what's good and bad. I can only defer to his judgment, and it's only because I don't want to go to Hell.

If you atheists out there have any words of comfort, please do weigh in. I'm scared.

Say you met an atheist online who spent many months helping you to learn English, setting aside a lot of his leisure time on your behalf. He kept his thoughts about Islam to himself, but you asked him about it, so he told you the truth: he disapproves of Muhammad, and he'd rather not discuss it further. But he is compassionate and respectful toward you. You ask him to say "Allah" instead of "God", and he complies. He does everything he can to help you with your goal.

One day you google his username and you find that he has a blog that is unkind toward Muhammad. The blog doesn't lie about Muhammad or Islam or the Qur'an, but it interprets the facts in a way that Muslims would consider unfriendly, and perhaps even mocking.

What do you do about this guy who has treated you so well but has a bad opinion of Muhammad? Do you try to get him to stop his blog? What if he refuses? Do you disown him? Do you call him a hater? Can a person who treated you with compassion and respect really be a hater? Please tell me all your thoughts.

34 & 35, where Jesus says, "...his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured...this is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive".

When will this torture happen? Or is it figurative? If figurative, then what does it mean?

I ask because I am curious about this difference between Christians and Muslims; Christians say they have an intimate, very familiar relationship with God, and they talk to him very casually all day long. I know that some Muslims would consider it bida even to address God directly except by rigorously following the salah.

Do you ever "ad lib" to God? Talk to him about things? I mean no offense; it's just curiosity.

...strength, or praying for a sick relative? If so, would you pray this as part of Salah, like right before or right after or in the middle, or would you pray this way at some other time of the day?

My sentence: They would spend months in these distant lands, buying and selling, bringing back money and...

...imported goods? "imported" is a given, because they're coming back from distant lands.

...commodities? Seems too generic.

...exotic luxuries? Close, but it's an oversell.

...various locally unavailable commodities? Accurate, but clumsy.

...various foreign commodities? This is my best candidate so far, but hoping someone here can think of something better. Shorter would be good too, but even four words could work; it's just that my four-word phrase seems clunky. Thanks!

And called CNN "Fake news"?

https://www.facebook.com/Upworthy/videos/159683660...

...what you hear about from others, or in the news, etc.

Please, please, thoughtful answers. Please don't say something like, "Well, the Bible is true for such-and-such reasons and the Qur'an is not true for such-and-such reasons." Please, seriously give it some thought. Please consider the very real problem even the most sincere seeker would have: Muslims who are every bit as decent and loving as you use prayerful discernment such that to them, Islam seems every bit as decent and loving as Christianity. Never mind the horrors in Islam; I can find horrors in Christianity just as easily as you can find horrors in Islam, and you would tell me that I'm reading the Bible without discernment. A Muslim, seeing your take on Islam, would say the same thing to you, and the same thing to me, for that matter.

Please guys, don't yank my chain. Give me a serious answer. What would Jesus do? Whatever you think he would do, please, do that.

If not, why not?

And not just relative to the existence of God, but also relative to other religions or other denominations of Christianity. For example, did anything ever make you wonder, even for a second, whether JWism or Mormonism or Catholicism or Protestantism or Islam (etc, etc) is right?

And I don't mean an experience that made you mad at God. I mean something that really made you wonder, or got you close to wondering, whether you had got it all wrong. Thanks for your time.

Serious question. Serious answers appreciated. Answers that don't create more questions appreciated even more. That is, please take the time to think about the reasonable objections to your answer. For example, "Muhammad is wrong because he disagrees with the Bible." The obvious question: how does that differ from, "Jesus is wrong because he disagrees with science"? I'm hoping for answers that address the obvious questions, or better yet, that don't invite obvious questions. Thanks for your time.

Christians have said to me, "You're failing to read with discernment", "You're taking it out of context", "You're approaching it with the wrong attitude", "You're just nit-picking and looking for problems", "You just want to go on sinning", and my favorite: "Duh!"

But what do you say about equally harsh criticism of the Qur'an? Is it justified? Why? Why different from the Bible? Please, don't say something that the average, peace-loving Muslim could turn around on you: none of this, "The Bible is just true" and "They worship a false god".

Seriously, what is the difference between my criticism of the Bible, of which you would so strongly disapprove that you would cast aspersions on my character and intelligence, and my criticism of the Qur'an, which you would wholeheartedly approve (or at least feel neutral about)?

What do you get out of endlessly posting questions about Jesus being sodomized, or pretending you're a teenager having trouble with her family? I mean, I understand yanking people's chains by pretending to be an atheist goading Christians, or pretending to be a Christian goading atheists, but I don't get the other stuff.

Why are you here? Why do you troll? Do you troll all the forums? What motivates you to troll, other than goading people to angrily defend themselves? If you feel like mentioning it, how old are you?