A common criticism of Christianity is that it is internally inconsistent, that a loving god could not condemn souls to an eternity of Hell. I usually see this as an argument for atheism. I have recently encountered it not as a reason to doubt the existence of a Hell and its creator but as a criticism of Him. Or, in this case, Her. The context is threads on my favorite fan fiction cite by my favorite authors.1 The setting, borrowed from a Pathfinder scenario, is the planet Golarion in a universe created, complete with afterlives, by Pharasma, the creator god. She allocates souls to afterlives, good or bad,2 according to what they have done in life. In the view of the protagonists of the threads and presumably their authors, Pharasma has not got it quite right. Her view of what acts count as good or evil is mostly, but not entirely, correct; there may be some things people ought to do that she counts as evil, some they ought not to do that she counts as good. More important, some...
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