buttercup
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Talking to Christians all the time differs from talking to all Christians. Yes, there are some who believe God actively tortures people. It seems atheists learned this as well. Catholics are taught hell is separation from God which one chooses. It is not forced upon them.
Exactly. I'm not even Catholic, but I don't think of hell in the way he does. Or the way he assumes Christians do. But now I see why he believes universal salvation. Some people simply can't fathom the idea of eternal separation from God. But of course we (humans) are fallible, we can't understand everything fully, and it is silly to think that just because we have a hard time wrapping our mind around something, we need to reject the word of God and come up with a more palatable idea that sounds better to our limited minds/ understanding.