Is your desire of hell for your fellow men due to your humanitarian sentiment or to the effete doctrine of your infallible Church?

1 min readUpdated 12 October 2022

I do not desire hell for my fellow men. I desire to save them from it. A truly humanitarian sentiment makes me glad that evil conduct is not a matter of indifference. It would be a dreadful thing if all men thought that they could sin with impunity. Your talk of an effete doctrine of an infallible Church is absurd.

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