To be fair, murder gets a lot less horrible if the people you kill just get sent to paradise for eternity afterwards. Though of course there’s still all the torture and slavery and that he wouldn’t have thought this would happen, so it wouldn’t be much of a defense for what he did, but it would lessen the severity a bit with that information added.
I’m not religious myself let alone a Christian, but I believe there is a group that follows this kind of “everyone gets in” logic, universalists
It’s less “everyone gets in” and more that finite crimes do not deserve infinite punishment. Universalists tend to believe that we will, with few if any exceptions, all be reunified with God. Immortal souls being punished endlessly is less than a loving concept, when any sins/crimes they committed were by nature not infinite or endless themselves. Advaita vedanta has a similar concept, as well as other branches of Hinduism such as kashmiri shaivism. Lots of religions have a concept of universal salvation or reconciliation.
Universalism was a major, and at times majority, view in the first five centuries of the Christian Church. It’s still a strong, albeit minor, view in Christianity today, one which shows up in both the Orthodox and Catholic churches as well as a number of Protestant groups’ theology.
To be fair, murder gets a lot less horrible if the people you kill just get sent to paradise for eternity afterwards. Though of course there’s still all the torture and slavery and that he wouldn’t have thought this would happen, so it wouldn’t be much of a defense for what he did, but it would lessen the severity a bit with that information added.
I’m not religious myself let alone a Christian, but I believe there is a group that follows this kind of “everyone gets in” logic, universalists
It’s less “everyone gets in” and more that finite crimes do not deserve infinite punishment. Universalists tend to believe that we will, with few if any exceptions, all be reunified with God. Immortal souls being punished endlessly is less than a loving concept, when any sins/crimes they committed were by nature not infinite or endless themselves. Advaita vedanta has a similar concept, as well as other branches of Hinduism such as kashmiri shaivism. Lots of religions have a concept of universal salvation or reconciliation.
Universalism was a major, and at times majority, view in the first five centuries of the Christian Church. It’s still a strong, albeit minor, view in Christianity today, one which shows up in both the Orthodox and Catholic churches as well as a number of Protestant groups’ theology.