How can you tell if you're going to hell?

Some people have the irritating habit of assuming that, since they're reasonable people in their own (incorrect) view, well, god must agree with them. From there it's just a short step to assuming that god agrees with whatever it is that they say or do.

The unfortunate thing is that god disagrees with his would-be little helpers.

Witness, for example, this drivel:

We are now in the end times (read: Jesus is coming; look busy), and, as such, the distinction between good and evil (and Left and Right) is becoming ever the more clear with each passing day.

Everyone, including "Moderates", is entrenching themselves in their ideologies - they think they're right. This makes it so much more important now, than ever before, to harken to the statement, "choose you this day whom ye will serve...but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD" (Josh 24:15).

Confirm Alito.

Newsflash: God doesn't care. If anything, he's likely irritated to be brought into your vain affairs. It seems you forget about the First Commandment, no? That little bit about taking 'My name in vain'? There's no fine print there that says 'the above does not apply to so-and-so'.

I never cease to be amazed how people - and this trait extends far beyond American wingnuttery, even if it is blessedly absent over here on the normal side of the aisle - can claim that God agrees with and is pleased by whatever bloody idiocy they come up with. Confirm Alito? Sure, god loves Alito, even if he'd probably have preferred Luttig, who is even crazier. Bomb a synagogue? Good plan - god hates the infidel Jew dogs. Behead a journalist? God will be tap-dancing at this slap at the crusaders. Firebomb Rotterdam and exterminate the Jews and the Gypsies? Gott mit Uns. Blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque? Nuke Tehran? Torture people at Guantanamo? Abolish the estate tax? All in a days work, and the warm benevolence of the Deity shines on all the carnage.

Wrong. History is a long and bloody book of people doing god-awful things to each other with the belief that god is in complete agreement with whatever blasphemy they commit. I'll go out on a theological limb and say the following: if you claim divine favor for political crap, odds are, you're not only wrong, but putting your soul in mortal danger. Second-guess god at your own peril unless you want to spend an eternity in hell.

Of course, for some people, including the above-quoted commenter - cowardly douchebag - it's already too late.