>Forced
>Love is not Real Love.
>When you choose to Love
>somebody even though you have
>the option to hate them
>that shows authentic or a
>genuine act of loving.

You burn. That isn't a choice to me.

Christianity doesn't work for everyone. A professor told us a story once about a missionary who described heaven & hell to a group of Africans, and then asked, "who wants to go to heaven??"

None of the Africans raised their hands.

So the missionary asked, "who wants to go to hell, then?" Almost everyone raised a hand.

One of the Africans explained, "You see, our time around our campfires is our most important time of the day. There we eat, play with the children, discuss tribal matters, etc. So you see, if we go some place with no fire, how will we communicate with each other?"

The "punishment" of a Christian God for nonbelievers was, to them, appealing. Those people weren't going to worship a God that would deny them their most basic enjoyment in the afterlife. Converts in Africa (and elsewhere) were largely made by the gun and by the dollar. Not from love for a strange God from someone else's land.

I'm sure that's not the way God intended it to be, but that's what people have made it into.



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