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Alan: For people who want to punish other human beings, there is no justice - and therefore no meaning that can be counted on - unless evildoers endure torment.
Only by consistent application of pain can humans who are "at peace with cruelty" be confident that "God is in his heaven" and "ultimate order" -- in the form of rigid, unbending Justice -- prevails on earth.
To be clear, this passion for punishment is not rooted in "God's" nature.
Rather, it is an entirely human need to validate, and thereby to keep faith in the conditioned structure of one's own psyche.
By projecting human cruelty onto God, human cruelty is deemed Godly.
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Those humans who seek punishment as a sine qua non of Justice have no choice but to believe "God has ordained it so" or, by default, they are obliged to confront their own inhuman cruelty.
In effect, they claim that "God made me do it" because God himself wants evildoers cast into The Unquenchable Lake of Fire.
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By believing that God is implacably committed to punishing evildoers, homo sapiens' savage inhumanity is transformed into "Godliness."
By projecting cruelty onto God we humans become "His" "most trusted confidantes," the indispensable executors of His Will on Earth.
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"The punitive" are typically driven by "salvation assurance" doubting they will be saved from God's wrath and -- in a last ditch efffort -- try to be "worthy of salvation" by becoming God's wrath, a particularly demonic form of self-apotheosis.
The one inescapable confrontation is with yourself.
Absent mercy, compassion and forgiveness, the best we can do is see ourselves as faithful executors of God's Implacable Will.
Voila'!
We are God.
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"The punitive" are typically driven by "salvation assurance" doubting they will be saved from God's wrath and -- in a last ditch efffort -- try to be "worthy of salvation" by becoming God's wrath, a particularly demonic form of self-apotheosis.
The one inescapable confrontation is with yourself.
Absent mercy, compassion and forgiveness, the best we can do is see ourselves as faithful executors of God's Implacable Will.
Voila'!
We are God.
Voila'!
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