Identifying Which Versions Of "Christianity" Are Automatically Coercive

 If a religion/worldview includes any threats of punishment for anyone who disagrees or disobeys, then:

Coercion is built into their worldview
and automatically imbedded in their message;
- no matter how gently it's presented,
and no matter how much the messenger just focuses on making it sound like a kindness.
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One man has argued that:
There is a version of the Christian message
which is not an attempt at coercion.

I replied: There are actually two versions which are not nesslerisasie coercive:

1. The Universal Salvation-ists.
and
2. The ones who take all of of it as just metaphors, for progressive secular values and wisdoms.

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He proposed a 3rd exception:

The ones who say "Eternal separation from God is the definition of "hell".
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So here's why I'm not adding that subcategory of Christians to the list of exceptions:

1. When they assert that, it's a dodge.

They are trying to claim that their version of "Hell" isn't a threat, and therefore isn't an attempt at coercion.
But that's disingenuous.

Those people are divided into two groups:

1. Those whom describe it as eternal darkness, in solitary; with no "God", and no friends, no family, no life. Just alone and blind forever.

2. Those whom believe that it would be psychologically torturous EVEN IF you're not blind, and you're able to have others around.

They say:
Since (their) "God" is the source of all love, hope, joy, goodness, etc...

everyone alive today (in our physical world) only can experience those things because we are not fully separated from (their) "God".

So basically, all the love, hope, joy, etc that pagans, deists, atheists, etc feel ... is 'on loan' from a God who will later cut-off that emotional funding.

In that "Hell", there would be no joy, hope, love, etc..
So then it would still be a literal, eternal, inescapable state of extreme psychological suffering.

3. They are also, automatically threatening all pro-God-ists who aren't in the Christian religion, and all the people who are in a different version of the Christian religion.

Those people panic at the very thought of:
Eternal discard
from the Super-Parent/God they feel an ACHING need to be accepted, loved, and validated by.

So when a Christian says:

their "Hell" is eternal discard (an abusive thing that Narcissists do. Even the mere threat itself is a form of abuse),

and that all non-members (including all wrong-version-members) are going to end up stuck in an eternal prison-realm without any hope of appeal, pardon, or escape, without any connection to their "God", ...

That is taken to be a serious threat by contrary versions of Theists.

It's also taken seriously by members in their "correct version" of Christianity (as defined by the speaker), who have secret doubts about the religion. They are frightened into "what ifs" that keep them controlled.

It's still an attempt at coercion.
And it sometimes works.