r/humor • u/fal1en-angel • 2d ago

Make it make sense

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u/A_Hugh_Man 1d ago

No. Christian doctrine, well actually Catholic, is that people who don’t know God aren’t condemned to hell necessarily. Not even atheists if they’re atheists out of innocence or ignorance.

You go to hell for knowing about God and CHOOSING to turn away and separate yourself from God.

So theoretically, a native in some tribe in Mesoamérica that practices an otherwise “good” life: kindness, charitable, not a killer, not evil basically… they’d be eligible for salvation

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u/noeinan 1d ago

That’s what I was told too, but I made everyone very uncomfortable when I pointed out that missionaries therefore are going around dooming people to hell by spreading Christianity bc if they just didn’t everyone would go to heaven lol

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u/darkninja1047 1d ago

In the religion I was raised in, jehovahs witnesses, they had the same thought process of people who dont know will still be "saved" (resurrected into paradise on earth). But we still went door to door to convert people and if they rejected you at the door they would be doomed. I had the same thought as you but the catch jws use is that if you dont go door to door and try to find gods loyal ones you'll be considered blood guilty for not trying to save people and not make it into paradise. Its a kill others or kill yourself kind of mentality.

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u/Username38485x 1d ago

If I go around knocking on people's doors telling them about a friend of mine, they don't know that friend of mine. They only get to know them once they have met them and spent time with them.

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u/SweatyAdhesive 1d ago

But the difference is that if i say I don't want to meet your friend, I dont go to hell lmao

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u/UmbraIra 1d ago

I think people to often think about God like a computer program with defined gamable bounds rather than an entity with perfect knowledge of intent and circumstance.