I pity the majority of sheeple who due to various cultural and familial circumstances have been led to believe various fairy tales and perverse judgments of others who live in other cultures or believe competing creation myths. Too often they are kept ignorant by a ruling class who leverage their beliefs into a self-serving power structure.

It seems reasonable to refer to religious people as “delusionists”.

I’ve actually written an entire book on this topic–”Hell? No! Why You Can Be Certain There’s No Such Place As Hell,” (for anyone interested, you can get a free Ecopy of my book at my website: http://www.ricklannoye.com), but if I may, I’d like to add one more point from my book to the many good ones you’ve presented here.

What these believers don’t consider is the real consequence of “winning” their wager. So, they end up in Heaven trying to sing praises to a God who is, simultaneously, torturing billions of others. How long is it before they would have to begin wondering, “When am I next?” Soon, the joy of Heaven is lost, and replaced by gloom and foreboding! After all, which is more difficult? For God to actively cause such immense pain, or to go back on whatever promises he made to a few others that he would not include them? No, such a cruel being would very likely, at some point, grow weary of surrounding himself with such lackies that he’d toss them in the lake of fire as well.