If there is a God, a merciful God, a loving God, a forgiving God, is Hitler in heaven?

[ohiosmith]

[dysfunctional press]

1. as long as he honestly took jesus into his heart before he died...

and had time to ask god's forgiveness for having taken the poison, then yes.

[madinmaryland]

2. Sheesh! Nice post, Hitler!

:hi:

[rug]

3. Do you think he'd want to be there?

[jobycom]

4. He plays parcheesi with Reagan and Dick Cheney every Thursday.

Cheney's not dead yet, but he's not completely alive, either, so his soul manages to make the trip once a week.

[ThomCat]

5. There is no logically/scientifically sound reason to think so, so no, no, no and no.

That was easy. :)

[Nicole Lambeth]

6. I concur...

although if some part of Hitler continued after death, I sure as heck hope it's nice and roasty about now.

Him and my seventh grade made teacher. That lady was a bitch.

[Withywindle]

7. Heaven? Hard to say. But he can't be in hell.

Hitler was only a man of limited understanding and very short lifetime (cosmically speaking), and his crimes, unspeakable as they were, can't possibly merit **eternal** punishment. If the soul is eternal and God is truly merciful and understanding, then the possibility for rehabilitation must exist.

Finite beings in finite lives cannot possibly commit sins of enough magnitude to merit **eternal** punishment. Especially since God, being omniscient, must have known all along that they were going to do so and could have prevented them if he chose. If Heaven is real, wouldn't it have been better for Hitler--not mention his millions of victims--if he'd died of some disease as a child? He would have been innocent and his salvation not in question.

Taking these popular beliefs about omniscience, sin, and evil to their logical conclusion, the only being ever potentially powerful enough to make decisions that, executed wrongly, deserve **eternal** hopeless punishment in hell is...God.

[LaurenG]

8. Meh - who knows if there is a heaven but if there is I would think that Hitler is in

the rehab for haters section. I also think...ah nevermind who cares what I think. :hi:


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