Whether or not we choose to condemn ourselves, apparently. The latest apologetic I'm hearing is that it's okay to be gay or otherwise attracted to the same gender. What's not okay is to act on it. Even though this is refuted by Jesus' introduction of thought crimes.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Sometimes I wonder that if the biblical literalist theory of reality is the correct one, if hell would not be preferable to heaven. Probably better company down there.

I don't know, literal Biblical verses paint Hell as a literal place of eternal torture. But as Twain put it, go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

And again, it's God that tells us "hell is bad" in his book, but he could be lying to further his agenda.

How hilarious would it be if Lucifer is God, and he wrote the Bible as a test to weed out the assholes?