Heaven and Hell on Earth: What Really Happened
If you gathered only good people to live together, would it be like heaven?
If you gathered only bad people to live together, would it be like hell?
The results of real-world "heavens" and "hells" were shocking.
There are too many to list, so here are a few typical examples.
The Puritan towns of early America?
When big sins disappeared, money increased, but people became Pharisees. Personal temperament became the moral standard.
Even slightly different greetings or clothing were attacked as "temptations of the devil."
Where the wicked disappeared, the "less good" took over the role of the wicked.
Nice people who hold it in? They explode even harder.
Keeping up a moral mask is exhausting. The moment it comes off, judgments pour out.
"She's desperate for men." "He's trying too hard to look young." "Her makeup is rude." "He talks carelessly." "Her clothes are too loud." "Is that all they gave at the wedding?"
Holy pastors don't lose either.
Unable to tolerate the evils of the church, they kept founding similar denominations by the hundreds.
There's plenty of hidden conflict in seminaries too.
Humans always create new power and new outsiders.
Just as wealthy, "nice" Qatar lives comfortably on the backs of foreign laborers.
Something unexpected happens on an island of pirates.
The person next to me could stab me while I sleep.
So they make stricter and more democratic rules.
They vote and divide the loot fairly.
A prison governed by the sword.
They don't morally condemn each other.
Because everyone is a murderer, a con man or a thief.
They keep loyalty to their comrades. Because if you're shut out, you die.
Australia was settled in part by convicts, and today it has low crime and high living standards.
Isn't it strange how hard-nosed authoritarian states get along with each other so well?
It's that if we don't make rules, I'll become someone else's slave.
No matter how good you become, better people keep scolding you and the bar keeps rising.
But in the eyes of God, the world's number one, we're all villains.
Who is good and who is evil?
Just as ruling and opposition parties call each other the embodiment of evil, no one knows.
But if faith is the standard for salvation, it's very clean.
Good deeds are usually squeezed out, but good deeds that come from gratitude for grace flow from peace.
"A place where sinners gather and forgive each other" is much closer to heaven than "a place where the righteous gather and judge each other."
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If you gathered only bad people to live together, would it be like hell?
The results of real-world "heavens" and "hells" were shocking.
There are too many to list, so here are a few typical examples.
Gather only good people, and they fight
The Puritan towns of early America?
When big sins disappeared, money increased, but people became Pharisees. Personal temperament became the moral standard.
Even slightly different greetings or clothing were attacked as "temptations of the devil."
Where the wicked disappeared, the "less good" took over the role of the wicked.
Nice people who hold it in? They explode even harder.
Keeping up a moral mask is exhausting. The moment it comes off, judgments pour out.
"She's desperate for men." "He's trying too hard to look young." "Her makeup is rude." "He talks carelessly." "Her clothes are too loud." "Is that all they gave at the wedding?"
Holy pastors don't lose either.
Unable to tolerate the evils of the church, they kept founding similar denominations by the hundreds.
There's plenty of hidden conflict in seminaries too.
Humans always create new power and new outsiders.
Just as wealthy, "nice" Qatar lives comfortably on the backs of foreign laborers.
Gather only bad people, and they don't fight
Something unexpected happens on an island of pirates.
The person next to me could stab me while I sleep.
So they make stricter and more democratic rules.
They vote and divide the loot fairly.
A prison governed by the sword.
They don't morally condemn each other.
Because everyone is a murderer, a con man or a thief.
They keep loyalty to their comrades. Because if you're shut out, you die.
Australia was settled in part by convicts, and today it has low crime and high living standards.
Isn't it strange how hard-nosed authoritarian states get along with each other so well?
How far down the ranking gets into heaven?
The reason for good deeds isn't that I'm good.It's that if we don't make rules, I'll become someone else's slave.
No matter how good you become, better people keep scolding you and the bar keeps rising.
But in the eyes of God, the world's number one, we're all villains.
Conclusion: the standard for salvation is faith
Who is good and who is evil?
Just as ruling and opposition parties call each other the embodiment of evil, no one knows.
But if faith is the standard for salvation, it's very clean.
Good deeds are usually squeezed out, but good deeds that come from gratitude for grace flow from peace.
"A place where sinners gather and forgive each other" is much closer to heaven than "a place where the righteous gather and judge each other."
