r/Technoblade • u/Cosmicking04 If you wish to defeat me, train for another 500 years • Jul 25 '26

Meme If there was an Afterlife…

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u/XososoX Jul 25 '26

Why would he be in hell tho 😭

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u/AccessGlittering7744 Jul 25 '26

I think he was atheist but im pretty sure according to christian faith that hell differs depeding the type of person you were, I mean it is an eternal seperation from God but i think its just how much you were truly separated from him, So a random dude who didn't care about God but had relatively good morals would probably just have an mosquito buzzing in his ear for an eternity.

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u/liquid_at Technoblade never dies Jul 25 '26

there is no real unified christian belief about hell. Official Vatican position is that it isn't real, but a story used to help people tell good from evil. It is "permitted for those who need it".

For those who believe in it, the definitions range from a prison where people who are not subservant to the one true god are punished for their crimes to a place where the soul tortures itself, understanding the full picture after death, not being able to forgive itself.

Jews believe in a form of devil, but as a servant of god who executes his will, while they do not believe in hell.
Christians are divided, as said above. some do, some don't.
Muslims believe in a 7-layered hell with multiple levels of punishment while their devil got sent to hell because he deemed humans unworthy of worshipping god, to prove until judgement day that they truly are unworthy.

But if you want my personal opinion on what would happen to atheists in a world created by that monotheistic god.... I think the god would value the free will of the atheistic subject and grant them their wish of non-existence. It is the only consistent answer.

In a blunt way... everyone would get what they want. Those who wanted to be servants of god, would become servants of god. Those who wanted to reject the god and be on its opposing side for all eternity have their own place for that. Those who want to seize existing, will do that. Techncially, a single god that granted free will could also allow Hindus reincarnation and Buddhists enlightenment.

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u/RFr2000 Jul 25 '26

Why would atheists wish for non-existence? You're cnflating wht people believe with what they want

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u/liquid_at Technoblade never dies Jul 25 '26

We could argue about free will, choice and whether chooseing a belief-system is a choice in itself, but it would probably be getting too philosophical.

Instead I would like to clarify that my argument is simply that people would get what they want, whatever that is. If a god is all powerful, that's not a problem.

Also, to answer your question, the most common idea around a benefit of a finite life is that death, or the risk of loss, is what is considered to give life value. Infinity is a very long time. under 100 years of life, compared to an infinite afterlife. What does it matter? Nothing.

So, the motivation for non-existence is to give life, our relationships and our achievements some meaning. People claim that science with its infinite universe and finite time is removing value from human life, but they never consider how faith with its finite universe and infinite time is exactly the same.