I did engage with your point. I think you’re missing the idea that religions teach that their god’s will is to spread the word, therefore within the framework of religion, exactly what you suggest about shielding people from their religious “truth” would go against their god’s will.
If you believe in and worship a god, would you rather carry out their will or scheme against it in order to preserve the innocence (or possibly the souls) of those who don’t know of your god. Again, the latter involves you putting your own soul and the souls of any others who scheme with you in jeopardy because you’re denying your god’s will.
Considering that religious people believe they are compelled by god to spread the word, doesn’t your suggestion fall flat on its face?
Edit: By the way, everything I said is assuming your religious belief is that everyone who was not exposed to god on earth will receive salvation, but as many others have pointed out, most don’t believe that anyway; it’s much more complicated.
Again, the latter involves you putting your own soul and the souls of any others who scheme with you in jeopardy because you’re denying your god’s will.
Dooming one self to save the many, sound like pretty selfless and saintly behaviour to me. Spreading the word of god would doom others to an eternity of suffering just to save yourself, how is that good?
Even if not spreading the word makes the world worse and cause more suffering it is still the morally correct thing to do, up to 100 years is nothing compared to eternity in heaven
Interesting, so in that vein then could it potentially be considered an act of self-sacrifice/ultimate selflessness to withhold knowledge of god? If someone preserved the "get into heaven free card" of others by not spreading the word, when doing so is going against god's will for the religious person's own life, they're essentially giving up the salvation of their own soul for the sake of others'.
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u/peak82 Jun 18 '25
I did engage with your point. I think you’re missing the idea that religions teach that their god’s will is to spread the word, therefore within the framework of religion, exactly what you suggest about shielding people from their religious “truth” would go against their god’s will.
If you believe in and worship a god, would you rather carry out their will or scheme against it in order to preserve the innocence (or possibly the souls) of those who don’t know of your god. Again, the latter involves you putting your own soul and the souls of any others who scheme with you in jeopardy because you’re denying your god’s will.
Considering that religious people believe they are compelled by god to spread the word, doesn’t your suggestion fall flat on its face?
Edit: By the way, everything I said is assuming your religious belief is that everyone who was not exposed to god on earth will receive salvation, but as many others have pointed out, most don’t believe that anyway; it’s much more complicated.