re: #12 Naso Tang

It is not a hell of a premise at all. There are fire and brimstone churches, there are profit in money churches and there are the Jesus kind, where people give as much as they possibly can.

No, it is not as simple as that at all. I have no idea why you think there is. There are churches that promise fire and brimstone if you rebel against god, but also infinite forgiveness from him if you truly accept him. That is, in fact, the main trope of churches; without the prospect of forgiveness, they wouldn’t have anything to sell. I have no idea why you think churches simply slot into punishing or forgiving.

The largest sect, Catholicism, certainly isn’t so easily parsed.