(January 27, 2018 at 1:48 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(January 27, 2018 at 9:31 am)shadow Wrote: So your idea of who goes to heaven or hell depends more on how one treats other people, and less on one's religion? I think that's a nicer outlook, but I don't know how Catholic it is.
Lol. Well first of all I was joking silly.
We are actually not supposed to judge the state of other people's souls because we can't read their minds, don't know their motivations, their life experiences, etc. All those things play a factor in a person's culpability and we simply cannot judge that because we don't know.
Okay, but say if you did know someone is a absolutely excellent person but not a Christian, are they hell bound? I'm genuinely curious how you think of this, because you're one of the only religious people I know who's actually willing to discuss their beliefs. Like, in your view, is being Catholic a prerequisite for not burning in hell, or can you get there through other ways? It seems to be an ideology that mandates an enormous ill-will towards other people - assuming that they are going to suffer eternally for their beliefs. Especially given all of the people throughout time, like before Christianity even existed. Or people never even exposed to your religion. How could they possibly have become Christians to earn their ticket to heaven?
And if being a Christian isn't really what matters... then why do you need this middleman of the Church to be a good person?
