(January 17, 2019 at 1:50 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(January 17, 2019 at 1:10 pm)Yonadav Wrote: It has been pointed out quite often by pretty much everyone for centuries. For example, Defoe gives the issue extensive treatment in Robinson Crusoe, which he wrote 300 years ago. His conclusion- it isn't their fault that savages were born in a place where they couldn't receive the good news, so they are completely innocent of sin.
Of course, the obvious conclusion to draw from that conclusion is that no one should tell them the good news, ever.
Um no, the obvious conclusion is that religion is human made.
I don't know if you remember the recent story where the missionary stupidly went to the Island off of India, and even after being warned not to do it, to spread the good news to an isolated people, and needlessly got himself murdered. I am quite sure that isolated tribe has gods of their own.
Believe it or not, not every discussion is an invitation for you to play the same broken record. I am not an xian, and even I know that almost every xian denomination has pondered the question concerning those who have never heard 'the good news'. Almost all of them have some caveat about how such people are blameless, and that if they served their deity in the way that they understood him, then it can be presumed that they would have desired to accept 'the good news' if they had heard it, and they might be saved on these grounds.
This is a discussion, dude. Try having a discussion instead of trying to pick the same fight in every single thread.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.