taryneast comments on Mere Messiahs - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taryneast 13 February 2011 10:55:25PM *  4 points [-]

I disagree. I think there are ways you could "defy God's will" by doing what could be considered a service to others... and not ever have a loophole to wiggle out of hell.

A good example might be a Christian choosing to shoot babies - so their souls could go straight to heaven while they were still "innocent"... It's plausible that a (rather twisted) christian could consider this a good thing for the souls of the babies, but I don't see any way that they would then get a one way ticket to heaven" out of it.