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can people with severe learning disabilities or mental health problems go to hell?

i mean, i know that it is a christian belief that children can't go to hell as they aren't considered old enough to make up their own mind, but what about those people who may have reached adulthood but still do not (for whatever reason) do not possess the capability to make a well-informed decision, or do not perhaps even possess the capacity for such concepts at all?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Well... The short and lucid answer is "No" because "Hell" is an imaginary place dreamed up to frighten people in to giving money and power to the Theocracy.

    Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Hell: an excessive punishment

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaL7CkQaQpU&feature...

    The long, complicated answer requires that you say "OK, for the sake of argument... Let us say that God, Jesus, Hell, Satan, all that nonsense exists..."

    For this argument, you must answer one, primary question...

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    Is Hitler in hell?

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    Hitler was one of the most despicable men to have achieved power in the last 100+ years. Thanks to him, MILLIONS and MILLIONS of people, both the innocents sentenced to death due to faith or lifestyle as well as the MILLIONS of soldiers that died on both sides fighting for the cause.

    Gut reaction says that the answer should be "Yes... Hitler was evil incarnate and he is in hell right now."

    Not so fast...

    ☮ 1. Hitler was a devout Catholic and said that he did what he did because he felt that he was following in the footsteps of Jesus.

    ✝ Hitler's Christianity

    http://www.nobeliefs.com/Hitler1.htm

    ✝ Jesus served as Hitler's role model. Here Hitler referred to the verse in one of his speeches:

    http://www.nobeliefs.com/DarkBible/darkbible6.htm#...

    "My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.... When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom to-day this poor people is plundered and exploited. " -Adolf Hitler, in his speech on 12 April 1922

    ☮ 2. Hitler was from a family with a well documented history of genetically inherited mental illness. He did his best to hide this and even went as far as having the mental hospital where his aunt was incarcerated 'cleansed'. But the fact remains that from a GENETIC STANDPOINT. Hitler's family was bat-sh*t crazy.

    ☮ 3. His innate mental illness was exacerbated by the abuse by his father or stepfather (I can't remember) during the entirety of his childhood. Physically, Mentally, and Emotionally abused by those he was supposed to be getting love and guidance from. People have "Snapped" from such abuse... (There is an allegation of sexual abuse, but I don't know enough about that to say yes or no...)

    ☮ 4. He became addicted to Amphetamines. Speed. Meth. Crank. Crystal... Speed is WELL DOCUMENTED to cause severe brain damage and cause paranoia and mental illness in people that are NOT already predisposed to mental illness... The Meth was offset with Opiate sedatives to allow him to sleep... We, the 'Good Guys' took the beaches at Normandy because Hitler was in a drug induced sleep and couldn't be awakened in time to send reinforcements... And after Speed was made illegal in the late 30's early 40's... He couldn't get Pharmaceutical Grade Meth anymore so his doctor paid for "Meth Labs" and it is thought that he sometimes substituted MDMA (Ecstasy) or impure speed, injected intravenously, which can cause SEVERE problems in the brain.

    GoogleVideo.com Search: "High Hitler & His Half Jewish Doctor"

    http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=High+Hitler+...

    ☮ 5. There is a theory that he had late stages of Syphilis towards the end of the war and Syphilis causes severe mental decline. You can see this in later videos where his left hand shakes to the point where he has to keep it flush to his side lest the men see the trembling.

    So... What was the point of all of ^That^?

    Was Hitler "Evil Incarnate" and was "Evil" due to an "Evil Soul" or was Hitler the product of physical defects and illness which led him down the road to killing millions upon millions of people?

    He killed himself, so some say he would automatically go to hell... But that act, too, was the result of the cumulative life choices all based on irrational thinking and mental illness.

    So even his SUICIDE was the product of a broken body and broken, physical, brain.

    So how can suicide or even the direct hand in the deaths of millions of people be judged by god to be bad when god was the one that gave him the deformed and defective body that is the major roll in the thought process?

    If your brain is damaged, you can't be held responsible for crime or evil because a defective brain was the catalyst for such actions.

    All of this means that if "God" is truly Just and Loving, s/he would realize that a broken brain = bad decisions and actions, right?

    YOU ARE YOUR BRIAN... If you have a damaged brain, you have impaired thinking... So even a "Pure Soul" can't fight against the processes in the brain that make the insane seem perfectly logical.

    Women kill their children because of mental illness... Then they get treatment for their illness and break down under the guilt of what they did while mentally ill...

    Crime tends to be the result of mental illness and the result of being raised in an abusive, neglectful home... Which, due to the epigenome, results in impaired cognitive development. If your bi polar disorder led you to do drugs to self medicate, which required crime to support the self medicating, then we, as a society could have prevented the downward spiral if we had treated the mental illness from its first signs. A "Bad" person that does 'Bad' things could have never have done those things if we had treated him for his damaged brain.

    So my argument negates any reason for "Hell", if it exists, because a majority of evil done in the world is the result of physical defect, which was caused or at least allowed, by the "God" that created everything and has a "Plan" for us all, right?

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I doubt they go to hell.

    The concept of the good news is so people can enter the Kingdom in this worldl now. The kingdom is within.

    Jesus told his believers that if people did not praise him that even the rocks would cry out. All of creation knows the creator and all of creation groans for his appearing according to scripture.

    When disabled people die they go to their father.

  • 1 decade ago

    If anyone answers no, they don't go to hell, I would like to offer this situation: Someone is a mass murderer/child molester for YEARS, and then is in a horrible accident where they are rendered unable to function above the IQ of a four year old....so do they go to hell? Or do they get a get out of hell card free because they can't make a sound moral decision?

  • LP S
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Why would they?

    God is fair and He will not send anyone to hell until they have been given a chance for salvation...

    People with mental disabilities are not accountable for anything sin they might commit.

    Why do you thing there is the millenium after Christ come to earth and we are all transformed into our spirit bodies?

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  • 1 decade ago

    Many children, under the Catholic belief, would not go to heaven but a place called purgatory if they were not baptized. Purgatory is supposed to be in between heaven and hell. Anyway, no, people with mental retardation cannot go to hell but the can't go to heaven either. There is nothing. When they die they will become cold and their energy will go back to the earth through all the bugs and critters. Stone cold in the ground replacing energy.

  • 1 decade ago

    To answer your question: No...people with learning disabilities or mental health problems (ex. people of religion) can not got to hell. Heaven, hell, God and Satan...these things don't exist beyond a fairytale. Remember: "Gods are control mechanisms created by governments with the sole intention of instilling fear, hatred, and obedience into their people."

  • 1 decade ago

    No such discriminations! It is the perceptions of learned people to rule the community they differentiated . here the behavioral ,moral things are equal to all human beings. Humanity is the only in the earth not more than that , we made all with our knowledge not more than that.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    My best guess is that if an adult is too severely retarded or mentally ill to choose between right and wrong, they would fall in the same classification as a child.

  • 1 decade ago

    No. Their disability was given them to strengthen their spirit and those of their caretakers. They won't see Hell unless they defy their maker. (not bloody likely)

  • 1 decade ago

    if they became disabled after becoming a adult and have not accepted jesus as their savior then they will not have eternal life

    if they are disabled from birth and grow to be adult their mind may still not understand adult things and would still go to heaven.

  • 1 decade ago

    I would imagine that if a person is challenged, then they would be in the same category as a child who can't choose right from wrong too.

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