I think it's more something along the lines of "bad" people having no afterlife at all and "good" people rejoicing in paradise on earth and hanging out with God forever and ever. I may be grossly oversimplifying.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! You want to restrict my freedom to fucking oppress people in the name of religious freedom! Your condemnation of bigotry is an assault on my Christian faith!!!!
Recently seen in a comments section about how parents discuss Santa with their kids:
This was much less about being holier-than-thou super-Christians and more about differentiating between The Magical Guy From Up There Who Knows How We Behave And Still Loves Us Anyway to Give Us Good Gifts and well, Jesus. If one's exposed as a lie, the other becomes suspect.
This should really make the poster sit back and reexamine things. If you can't explain the difference between how you "know" God exists and how you know that Santa doesn't, maybe you shouldn't be telling your kid that one of them is unquestionably real and one of them unquestionably isn't.
There are spiritual truths in which to believe, but organized religion is a terrible place to try to find them.
They may have begun from something that was true or good, but those things are rapidly appropriated and altered or recast by people who seek to control others, or to use those ideas for their own gain.
The problem is that where there is power to be had, people who desire it will push their way in and take over, doing whatever they can to increase their influence.
And religion is one of the most powerful things there is.
What better way to control people than by controlling what they believe?
It is far better to seek truth for oneself than to blindly accept and follow what other people tell you is true.
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