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

[ajazali]

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

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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.

Ok, can you tell us who introduced the idea of morality?
Some moral acts are not mandatory in religion means people will not go to hell even if they don’t do that. But religious people do follow those acts out enlightenment of religion. Now, you can question whether enlightenment exists or does not.
If religious person does moral act for afterlife reward even then that act, for atheist, as per worldly rules is selfless act. because for atheist after life reward means nothing.

And how did you conclude that?

That is somewhat i have personally observed. This article does not address poor atheist specifically but see this article with survey.
Are Atheists More Moral than the Religious? | Religion Dispatches

I know you can get few points in favour of atheists from this article but you raise those, i will try to refute.

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?

If their acts are in the name of religion that doesnt mean religion endorses that.
Do you aggree that if we follow religion in its true sense then we cannot act immoral?

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.

because you are grown up of an environment where rape is considered bad thing. rape is a bad thing has been told to this world by religion.
Do you think human beings by default know what is good and what is bad?
and same is the case with animals?