Let me ask you a question - a serious one - there are probably well over a billion people who have never ever even heard of Christ, and billions and billions and billions more who came before us and never heard of Christ, where do they go and are they "saved"?????
That's my point exactly. And that was a good passage. People can be very moral, very good towards their fellow man, very righteous, and act in an otherwise gracious way towards their fellow man, without being part of an organized religion.