Alright so my phone crashed the first time I tried this. It is now almost 2am so you can see how determined I am to get this out.

I'll start off by saying that I am not here to offend anyone, but to simply share my extremely pessimistic view on life. So if this ends up reiterating someone else's previously shared view, I apologise.

Now I'll ask a RHETORICAL question to the theists here that they have all probably heard a thousand times: do you believe in heaven? Do you believe in hell?

If someone offered me irrefutable evidence that hell exists (not specifically mentioning WHERE, but more that it is exists in general), I would say that it is not beneath us (or in another realm), but here, right where you're standing.

Right now we live in a world where men are being tortured, women raped, and children slaughtered. Sons and daughters die in pointless wars while their mothers, brothers, and sisters are being abused sexually and physically by strangers, friends, or even family.

People are dying of starvation, cold, and disease, while governments count their money and silence anyone who would dare speak out against them.

We think of hell as the worst place imaginable, a place of eternal torture, pain, and suffering, but right now I can't think of anything worse than this.

Perhaps we have the wrong meaning of 'eternity', because as long as we humans exist, there will always be torture, pain, and suffering, so if our species lasts for an eternity...

So my question to the Catholics, Christians, Muslims, etc.... Why continue to believe you can go to heaven, if we've already been sentenced to hell?