• Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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    Fascinating. Classism, in heaven. Work yourself to death so that you can enjoy a better neighbourhood of heaven than your neighbour.

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      Mormons have three tiers of heaven. According to some, even Hitler would make it into the lowest tier. I’m not sure what you’d have to do to actually go to hell, which is supposedly just lonely infinite darkness away from the presence of God.

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        Ex-mormon, the canon is that to go to “outer darkness” you need to have perfect faith in god, like you know he exists as you know your dog exists, and still deny him. So practically the only people on earth eligible to go there are those who’ve actually seen him or have been sufficiently convinced by one of his angels or miracles, or otherwise witnessed some heavenly shit like that that sheds all doubt, which is why Hitler probably didn’t go there. Also now that I’m remembering this, the “outer darkness” isn’t really a place, you just get shunned by god (light being a metaphor for god and truth)

      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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        I’m not sure what you’d have to do to actually go to hell,

        Be mormon, then say mormonism is false. It’s their only unforgivable sin.

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        hell, which is supposedly just lonely infinite darkness away from the presence of God

        So, “days ending in a Y”

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      “But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.”

      However it’s obtained it’s something very hard for the well resourced and powerful to do. Jesus anticipated it’s the “very least” in this life who have the capacity to be recognised as “first” in the Kingdom.