[tx_eggman]

Just as any decent human being would want good people to be rewarded in whatever existence there is after this life, they would want the cruelest of people to be punished.

Careful there Mr. Prager, it's not that Yessir I'marat wasn't evil, but we need to remember that we are all sinners and deserve hell. Without the unmerited mercy of God we'd all be condemned

Luke 18:10-14

Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men--robbers, evildoers, adulterers--or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'

"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'

"I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

[durasell]

I don't think I wrote the opening, but thanks, the reply was interesting.

[Alberta's Child]

See #206. I'm not sure what the passage you've quoted there means to Prager; I'm sure the New Testament has a different approach to the afterlife than what he would understand through Judaism.