Why do religious people think they must prevent everyone from going to hell?

[Shak]

Re: Why do religious people think they must prevent everyone from going to hell?

@psyah

Peace 09

Both Oxfam (set-up by Quakers - Theists) and Red Cross (set-up by Calvinists - Theists) hire a multitude of people … I didn’t say atheists aren’t morally driven - I said and will rephrase that if you put the best of the theists and the best of the atheists - morally higher ground will be with the theists for obvious reasons … it is because atheists will always look for personal benefit whereas theists can do things for no foreseeable benefit of their own because they believe in an afterlife.

I also said the worst of the people will number from both sides … but not the best …

Peace,

Theists do good stuff so they get good deeds from God and hence get saved from hell fire. Isn’t that doing it for your own benefit as well? Because that is exactly what it is.‘‘Hey I will do a good deed so I don’t get thrown in hell’’. Saving yourself by doing a good deed I would argue is even more selfish. And no Pysah. Some people do things because it makes them happy and not because of some personal benefit.

Now I am not saying everyone is like that. I think religious and non-religious people who are unselfish do good things because it makes them happy that they are making a difference in the world. Its really simple IMO.