You do all realise that according to Christians, Jesus died to forgive our sins.

Therefore every murderer, rapist, paedo, genocidal maniac, and general all round bad egg, is allowed into heaven. Jesus essentially created a heavenly schengen agreement for the deceased.

This all begs the question of if Heaven really is a good place to go anymore.
Imagine for example being brutally raped and murdered by Peter Sutcliffe, only to find that a few years later he turns up in heaven on your spiritual doorstep and says HONEY I'M BACK.

With this in mind one has to therefore ask if Jesus was actually doing good by forgiving all our sins.

It has occurred to me that Jesus may be the true embodiment of evil itself.
By telling people it doesnt matter how they behave when alive, Jesus has effectively given people the carte blanche right to act how they want, without any consequence upon death. This amounts to Temptation, which as we all know is one of the skills the Devil possesses.

Looking at the Christian cross is it not unusual that a religion would have an object associated with pain, suffering & torture as its totem. Surely pain suffering and torture are things associated with Hell rather than Heaven.
Is Christianity therefore a form of Devil worship?

Does Islam go in depth about hell?

What about other cults?

Christianity, Judaism, Jehovahs, ancient Greek and Egyptian society, Islam, Buddhists, Chinese folklore, even native American culture all have a version of Hell although strangely Hindu's don't.

So it must be true then.

I hear tell that "our Nigel" was preaching from the 'RFL Bible'.....what normally follows that?

Although none of the other Abrahamic religions (and, as far as I remember, none of the other religions) do the idea of the Devil quite like Christianity does.

IIRC (it's a few years since I was doing a spot of research on it), Judaism doesn't really bother and Islam has sort of sprites that are more mischief-making than demonic.

Which sets up the question of whether any other religious culture could therefore produce Faust?