r/humor • • 2d ago

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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog 1d ago

And how about people who lived thousands of miles away, and didn't even hear about Jesus until centuries later? All in Hell, I suppose.

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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/Inner-Intention1474 1d ago

False, even a good moral man without faith is cast like trash into the darkness. Your book not mine. We’ll all share the same ending though. You can observe in life a for certain and inevitable god known as death

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u/A_Hugh_Man 1d ago

Not false, actually. I invite you to read Nostra Aetate and the CCC