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How many billions are in hell? This is the 75 billion soul question.

Depending on whatever your personal religion or faith is, you must accept that you and your God are condemning the vast majority of humankind to an eternity of torture and torment – if you believe in hell. And forget about the free will argument because when you have a 75 – 85% failure rate, that’s a design flaw – not a choice. In no other discipline would a 75% failure rate be acceptable. Not cars, computers, puppies, or people. To any morally responsible person, this should be unacceptable of a deity. If His ways are so inscrutable then how can mere mortals know or understand morality — if the Creator has no discernible morality or goodness?

The fact that Muslims and Jews discount either the death of Jesus Christ or the resurrection should also be of concern to Christians; to most, it is not, as they ignore the over 75 billion non-Christians souls burning in hell for all eternity as we speak.  That is a simple calculation, based on an estimate of all the humans who have ever lived, approximately 106 billion, times the approximately 71% of the human population that is not Christian.

Also, that number assumes all Christians are going to heaven, which, with numerous competing ideologies, is most certainly not the case. If only all those sinners could have been convinced of the error of their faith, or lack of faith, they could all have been saved from everlasting torture. So to suggest that 80 – 85 percent of the world’s population, depending on your faith, are not true believers, places a burden on a purported deity that no deity should accept.

It is unconscionable to believe this is true or acceptable. No matter how many missionaries you send out or how much you proselytize, the number still does not change that much, and it is a statistical certainty that yesterday, today, tomorrow and probably 100 years from now, your God is creating human probabilities destined for heaven or hell. He already knows before they are born but allows billions, not millions to suffer for all eternity. Mere death or even worldly torture is not enough. No eternal torture is the choice of this deity.

If a 71 to 85 percent failure rate is the best an omniscient deity can do, based on allowing free will, then this is most certainly the greatest failure ever imagined. I would have hoped we were not His favorite creation. I would have hoped not to have been born in India, or Saudi Arabia, or in Israel or the jungle or to a household that favored scientific inquiry over superstition. In my book, the 12 Unthinkable Horrors, I go into great detail on how Free Will is a Myth so this argument is mute. However, even if someone argued we do have Free Will, then, as a species, it is quite obvious that the experiment is a horrible failure unless said deity is happy or joyous or even simply allows 71% of his favorite creations to writhe and squirm and scream an abject pain and sorrow for all eternity.

But remember, as George Carlin says, “God loves us.”

The fact that the faithful are more concerned about aborting approximately one million unborn children (technically saving them from the probability of the damned) could be argued a good thing versus the 75 billion in eternal torment and growing by the million virtually every day. This type of thinking shows a peculiar lack of compassion. Statistically, it would be better to have never been born, versus a 71% probability of unending pain and damnation. The staggering enormity of this information boggles our human brain, which prefers simple parables and parochial thinking versus reality and complex statistics.