It is the religious man whose beliefs preach to him the importance of patience, forgiveness, love and martyrdom upon the approach of the rash and brutal acts laid down by the hands of a sinner. Their abstinence from action is at times very convincing, but if you stare a little longer you start to notice the formation of line about their edges. They hold a façade to mask that they are those same creatures. Playing a temporary role of abstinence in this life so that they will be overwhelmed with the eternal reward of lording over those in damnation and the sensory pleasure that will greatly satisfy their animal brutality as the physical hells on judgment day are inflicted upon their mortal enemies for their viewing pleasure. So it is the promise of greatest horror ever unleashed upon mankind that leaves the spiritual salivating in restraint.
Nietzsche: In my view, Dante was grossly in error when, with an ingenuity meant to inspire terror, he set that inscription over the gateway into his hell: “Eternal love also created me.” Over the gateway into the Christian paradise and its “eternal blessedness” it would, in any event, be more fitting to set the inscription “Eternal hate also created me”—provided it’s all right to set a truth over the gateway to a lie!
Thomas Aquinas, the great teacher and saint: . “Beati in regno coelesti”, he says, as gently as a lamb, “videbunt poenas damnatorum, ut beatitudo illis magis complaceat” [“In the kingdom of heaven the blessed will see the punishment of the damned, so that they will derive all the more pleasure from their heavenly bliss.”]
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