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?

@ajazali

The idea of morality came from religion. Religion better knows how to make people moral. Religious people do not act morally to avoid hell. Because acts like, charity (except zakat), helping others, are not mandatory in religion but the framework religion provides make people act moral without being frightened of hell.
So the argument, religious people act moral to avoid hell is FALSE.

False. Know plenty of non-religious people whose parents have never been religious and they are far more moral then frankly I can ever be.

Second bolded sentence doesn’t make sense to me, no offence. You’re saying they don’t do good to not go to hell but do it so they don’t have to be scared of hell? That sentence doesn’t make sense. If they do it for heaven ONLY then that can be deemed selfish too. I would help someone because its my moral duty as a fellow man AND because its in all our deens.

@ajazali

Real test of morality is when you don’t have. Look at real religious people they act moral even while being poor. A poor atheist is more likely to act immoral than a poor religious.

And how did you conclude that?

As I said people are misrepresenting Islam as usual. There are hakool-ul-Ibad and Hakool Allah. If a religious person does the second one without doing the first one then that IS the definition of being selfish.

Moral codes aren’t bred into a person by religion, otherwise we can say all the terrorists, where is their morality? They believe yours and my religion too. If an atheist read your post and said hey isn’t it Islam who is giving the Taliban morality too (which is what the Taliban believe) would you consider their view valid?

A mother’s love or staying away from rape and murder aren’t conditioned in a person by religion. I don’t remember my family having to sit down to me and tell me not to do such crimes. My ability to do no crimes is because I am a decent human being or I try to be. These moral codes are written in us and praying to God helps me remember that but that does not make any person who isn’t religious any immoral than me.