Reply #83: You seem to so often have an excuse...

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...for not providing answers when asked pointed question. Maybe now and then you could try to dazzle us with your knowledge to show directly how such a questioner doesn't know what he or she is talking about. Time and time again, however, you demonstrate that you prefer to show contempt, and leave it at that. If this was a now-and-then response, it would be one thing. I don't expect people to be infinitely patient at all times in discussions like these.

But it's your modus operandi, while substance is rare.

As to you, where is your evidence that "a direct answer would likely be uncomfortable and put you in a bad light".

The evidence is your continued avoidance of a straight answer to the hell question. Is that totally conclusive evidence? Of course not. But I stated my opinion as a guess, not a firm conclusion, which provides you the as-yet unused opportunity to prove my conjecture false.

My guess is that you're ashamed to admit straight out that you think there's a real hell, and that you think real people deserve to end up there, especially if your "theology of hell" leads to a belief that it is a place of eternal torment. Either that, or ashamed of what a wishy-washy answer you'd have to provide to wiggle out of stating a belief in hell that either isn't all that real or all that hellish.

If I'm wrong, you've now once again got all of the opportunity you need to demonstrate that fact.