Good people don’t go to Hell. The trouble is that the word "good" is relative. Your good may be different from my good, and Hitler’s good is no doubt different from what our idea of good.
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Well, in good Amerkin tradition, let's go for the lowest common denominator. After all, we're doing the same to the quality of education....
Relative morality, Ray? For shame.
So, I guess that the objective meaning of the word "good" applicable to your first sentence is "anyone who is willing to suck off Jesus without monetary reimbursement"? Am I in the ballpark?
What he's trying to say here, is that all people are so hopelessly bad, they ALL deserve to go to Hell. So it doesn't make any difference how good you are. If you don't believe in (Ray's version of) God, you get the punishment (that Ray also deserves, but since he guessed the right denomination, he gets to stay out of that eternal fire).
This is unrelated, but I noticed that denomination can be mispelled to read 'demonination'. I wonder if CuttingEdge.com has noticed this?
So what is "good" then, genius? Funny how god's version of good, when described by his various fans, is always the same as the views of those fans.
"The trouble is that the word "good" is relative. Your good may be different from my good, and Hitler’s good is no doubt different from what our idea of good."
Well this much is at least correct. Good is in the eyes of the beholder. What is good to one will be evil to another.
Oh, but Hitler was a God-Fearing, Card-Carrying Christian. By you guys' standards, he's chilling with Jesus right now.
Ah, so you're finally admitting to moral relativism and the good ol' "Might makes right".
However, for us atheists and/or secular humanists, morals are pretty straightforward and are based on human rights and empathy, so they tend to be more rigid than God's arbitrary whims.
How do you know Hitler isn't in heaven? He professed to be doing "God's work", "The Will of the Almighty Creator", went to church, and wore a belt buckle that said "God With Us".
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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