(Leaving aside concerns about the “banality of evil”) If you were to rank a top 10 of the most evil people of the last 100 years, would you include Bin Laden? How does Bin Laden stack up with the big boys–Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot? Granted, he hasn’t caused the deaths of nearly as many innocent people as those guys (at least not yet), but he apparently would if he knew how.
If you were a ticked off omnipotent being and you created a place of eternal torment, what would Bin Laden’s eternal existence be like, relative to the experiences of the big three frontmen of 20th century tyrannical mass murder? Perhaps the experience would be kind of like living in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, as a woman.
And if you were in heaven and could witness the torment of the profoundly evil in hell, would you feel a sense of incessant Schadenfreude (as Tertullian describes), or would you start to feel some sympathy after a while? Like, “Okay, Hitler’s been getting sodomized with barbed wire while being force fed feces for the last 100 million years, this is getting rather tiresome. He’s had enough already.”
