History PlayingWith / EasyRoadToHell

* '''Deconstructed''': Because trivial things can lead to one's damnation, this becomes a {{demotivator}} for [[HeavenSeeker heaven seeking]].
* '''Reconstructed''': The road is easy but not inevitable.

** Just doing ''anything'' can condemn you to hell.

** Bob thinks of lustful thoughts. '''God sends him to Hell within a span of one second.'''

** The writer wants to use Hell in his series as a way to {{scare|Em Straight}} the audience into good behavior.

** The author is a NayTheist, who wants his/her works to rally humanity against the malevolent {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that rule the universe.

** [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality Bob kills thousands of innocents. God is pleased with him and sends him to heaven.]]

* '''Zig Zagged''': Going to hell is fairly easy for minor sins - but the level of punishment is light to non-existent for the lightest levels. Most don't even stay there that long. However many of what are considered severe amount to DisproportionateRetribution. However spirit uprisings over the injustice of disproportionate sins can occur and the more karmically out of whack they are the empowered and far more likely to succeed. Extreme unfairness would allow a single weak soul to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat God and Satan allied]] for their cosmic overreach. Being successful is enough to bring your category high into heaven if successful. But failing results in the whole class being brought deeper into hell even if you took no part in or weren't dead at the time.

** The writer, who is an atheist, wants to use this idea to demonstrate how terribly cruel God can be.

* '''Discussed''': Bob did a bad deed and is expecting his eternal doom, only to have God tell him He's nothing like that, and to not be so quick to believe [[ComicBook/ChickTracts what those nasty comic books]] say about Him.

* '''Deconstructed''':
** Because God threw Bob to Hell for minor crimes, this grabs the attention of humanity (even the good ones), who became fearful of making a slight mistake. And as they did, the earth's population of humans have decreased rapidly. (It also doesn't help that being fearful of making a slight mistake is also on the sin list.)
** Also see "Exaggerated 2" except that God sends the entire human race to Hell.
** This only proves that GodIsEvil because eternal punishment for ThoughtCrime is an obvious sign of a corrupt dictatorship. Therefore, in the end, the more humanistic atheists are {{Doomed Moral Victor}}s.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** ...but God could care less, and only a quarter of humanity have followed Him and managed to stay morally spotless as possible.
** ...but then He creates a new human race while making His laws the same but less difficult than it previously was (of course, that's just TemptingFate).

** Because God threw Bob to Hell for minor crimes, this grabs the attention of humanity (even the good ones), who became fearful and paranoid of making a slight mistake. And as they did, the earth's population of humans have decreased rapidly.

** Bob goes to Hell because he [[MattressTagGag removed the Do Not Remove tag from a mattress.]] When in Hell, even the demons are scared of him due to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the heinousness of his sin.]]

** God is a KnightTemplar who believes that AllCrimesAreEqual.

* '''Invoked''': God thought about keeping humanity in line, so He sends out the warning that any major or minor sin will lead them to Hell.

* '''Invoked''':
** God thought about keeping humanity in line, so He sends out the warning that any major or minor sin will lead them to Hell.
** A [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] tries to convert non-believers by telling them they will immediately go to Hell if they don't accept God's standards.
* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Invoked''': God thought about keeping humanity in line, so He sends out the warning that any major or minor sin will lead them to Hell.

** Bob kills thousands of innocents. God is pleased with him and sends him to heaven.

** God throws Bob to Hell. This grabs the attention of humanity (even the good ones), who became fearful and paranoid of making a slight mistake. And as they did, the earth's population of humans have decreased rapidly.

* '''Reconstructed''': ...but God could care less, and only a quarter of humanity managed to stay sinless because they are His followers.

%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': Bob steals a car. He knows he's going to Hell for it. Before he could even ask God for forgiveness, [[HeelFaceDoorSlam God sends him to Hell anyways]].

* '''Implied''': Several characters never seen committing any but the most minor of misdeeds are seen in Hell later.

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* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Implied''': Several characters never seen committing any but the most minor of misdeeds are seen in hell later.

* '''Deconstructed''': God throws Bob to Hell. This grabs the attention of humanity (even the good ones), who became fearful and paranoid of making a slight mistake. And as they did, the earth's population of humans have decreased rapidly.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Defied''': ???

%%* '''Implied''': ???

** Bob dies and meets an angry God who is threatening to send him to Hell. However, God's movements are [[Main/SpecialEffectFailure awful jerky]] and he seems to getting a lot of His facts about Bob's life wrong. Bob yanks off God's robe to find that it was actually the Devil trying to take over Heaven again while God was out having lunch with Jesus.

* '''Conversed''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': Doing one small bad deed will condemn a character to hell.

** Bob thinks of lustful thoughts. '''God sends him to hell within a span of one second.'''

* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': GodIsEvil.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...only to send him to hell because he lacked faith during his test.

** The writer wants to use hell in his series as a way to {{scare|Em Straight}} the audience into good behavior.

* '''Justified''': The world is ruled by a [[GodIsEvil tyrannical deity]].

* '''Parodied''': ???

** Doing small bad deeds doesn't easily condemn people to hell.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Come on! Sending me to hell is too much!"

* '''Deconstructed''': God throws Bob to hell. This grabs the attention of humanity (even the good ones), who became fearful and paranoid of making a slight mistake. And as they did, the earth's population of humans have decreased rapidly.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...only to send him to hell because he lacked confidence faith during his test.

* '''Parodied''': Bob did a bad deed and is expecting his eternal doom, only to have God tell him He's nothing like that, and to not be so quick to believe [[ComicBook/ChickTracts what those nasty comic books]] say about Him.

* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Parodied''': ???

** Bob thinks of lustful thoughts. '''God sends him to hell immediately.'''

* '''Double Subverted''': ...only to send him to hell because he lacked the faith during his test.

* '''Enforced''': The writer wants to use hell in his series as a way to {{scare|Em Straight}} the audience into good behavior.

* '''Inverted''': Bob says one nice thing about Alice. He is deemed worthy of heaven.
* '''Subverted''': Bob did a bad deed and is expecting his eternal doom, but finds out that God forgave him for it.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...but before Bob could try to reconcile for his deeds, God condemns him to hell anyways.

* '''Enforced''': The writer wants to use hell in his series as a way to scare the audience into good behavior.

%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob thinks of lustful thoughts. '''God sends him to hell immediately.'''

* '''Justified''': ???

* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???

* '''Averted''': Doing small bad deeds doesn't easily condemn people to hell.
* '''Enforced''': ???