Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: morals, and the low correlation with religion Message-ID: <405@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 12:48:45 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.405 Posted: Fri Oct 19 12:48:45 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Oct-84 07:44:58 EDT References: <453@pucc-k> <248@qantel.UUCP> Reply-To: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Distribution: net Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 22 The question of what happens to dead-non-christians is by no means settled. The NT largely punts on the question of virtuous non-believers, tending to divide people into believers, "sinners", and the desparate. I do agree with the principle that no man is good enough to "deserve" salvation. On the other hand, my moral sense is offended at the idea that a bunch eskimos are going to get off easy, while someone having the bad luck to be born in the USA is going to "burn". I also don't like the mercenary aspect of conversion due to fear of hell-fire. As far as I'm concerned, Jesus can do whatever he wants to save those who choose to turn their backs on what many rightly perceive as being a hotbed of intolerance and hypocrisy. I suspect that a man who condemns christendom for all the evil it has done is more likely to be saved than the likes of Falwell and the other Elmer Gantrys that plague us now. I may disagree with such a man, but that's another story. And besides, who gave any man the right or ability to discern who is not going to inherit eternal life? Charley Wingate umcp-cs!mangoe "Jesus Wept."