A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal meanness. To worship an eternal gaoler hardens, debases, and pollutes even the vilest soul. While there is one sad and breaking heart in the universe, no good being can be perfectly happy.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York
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in reply to WIST Quotations • • •Perhaps if Ingersoll had looked at human existence through the biblical lens of Oppressor and Oppressed he may likely have agreed that infinite punishment is just right.
Let's consider History in say America.
Unless God steps in, the indigenous peoples and real owners of the land would be INFINITELY dispossessed by the colonialists.
Unless God steps in, Enslaved Africans would be INFINITELY enslaved.
Any evil we consider on this earth is INFINITE.
A murder has taken a life away FOR EVER.
Our cruel words can damage the spirit of a person FOR THEIR ENTIRE life.
Therefore, the punishment fits the crime.
We haven't and perhaps cannot understand the depth of evil. It is a behavior that is instigated by an evil being (devil in English) that is relentless and will not stop until God steps in to halt him. This is our opinion anyway and since life is finite, we will have opportunity to know what is on the other side of life.
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