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Last night, I watched a half an hour talk, with a guy called 'Bill Wiese'. He's the author of a book called '23 Minutes in Hell'. In the book, Wiese claims that one night, he was cast into hell, by God, for 23 minutes.
He describes Hell as being like a prison cell. He claims a thirteen foot demon was stood in his cell, and threw him around, crushing his head. He claims that the fumes are so powerful, that they would kill a person, but because you're already dead, you're suffering pain of death, without actually dying.
He claims he was then hung over a fire, in the fire, people were screaming and burning, flesh melting, but not actually melting because they aren't phsyical bodies.
Apart from these claims, the one thing that got me, the one thing that actually annoyed me the most, amongst other things, was the claim that God pulled him safely out of hell and took him home. He says that on his way home, God told him that Hell was not meant for him. Hell was meant only for the non-believers.
I'm a non-believer. Which means, i'm going to hell.
I've been Atheist my entire life. I could never accept any organised religion. The Bible for me, is full of contradictions and historical inaccuracies. If it were infact the word of God, it would be perfect. It isn't. Therefore, God cannot be perfect.
When I was in Primary school, we were made to pray, and sing hymns, in morning assembly. At that time, I realised it was ludicrous. Kids and intuitive. I knew I was being told I had to believe something, regardless of the lack of evidence for it's existance. So from around the age of 8, i'd say I was atheist. So, if I were to die, as an 8 year old Atheist, would the 'soul' of a child, burn in hell? Be put in a prison cell with demons and beaten? What kind of a God allows that?
What if I become an aid worker? What if I help the lives of millions? What if I do more good than any priest or cardinal or pope, put together, yet stay Atheist? Am I still going to burn in hell? If Hell is ONLY for the non-believers, is it ok that I go on a killing spree now? Given that i'm going to hell anyway, I may have to spend this afternoon stealing some money from tills across the city. What if I kill, rape, steal, beat, destroy and slaughter millions, yet decide to convert to a believer on my death bed? Will I go to heaven?
Surely I can't help not believing? It's not a choice. It's a feeling. Religion likes to pick on those who don't share the same inner feeling as them. Whether they be atheist, homosexual or just of another religious persuasion, they're sure to be going to hell for it. So what it seems like, is with Hell, Atheists or people who would otherwise question religious belief, especially by being told that we'll burn in a scorching fire, are being made to claim we believe, through fear. It's so wrong. The American Government are the worst for it.
Weise annoyed me an incredible amount during his speech. He played on the emotions of the public. It disgusted me. He described the terror the victims of 9/11 felt, when they realised the flames in the Twin Towers, were going to incinerate them, and so they jumped, to escape burning to death......... and that the flames he felt in Hell, was hotter than that. I know he's lying. Call it closed minded, I call it common sense. So, it sickens me to know that to help add credibility to his lie, he uses the unimaginable suffering felt on 9/11. Saying things like "Imagine how you'd feel...." It was the worst example of the manipulation of the public's emotions, i've seen in a long time.
He then, more irritatingly than annoyingly, used Science to tell the audience the heat of the Earth's core. Don't use Science to justify your outrageous lie.
This man wrote book on his 'experiance in hell'. So, unless he gives all of that money that he will inevitably make from that book, to the poor, according to Jesus, he's going to hell too.
I'll see him there. |
