[strider44]

My husband was raised Catholic and we had a huge discussion the night that O'Reilly told Falwell that Christians don't have a lock on going to heaven, that he believed that if you are a good person, no matter what God you worship, you would go to heaven. I responded with the same Bible verse that Falwell quoted on Donahue and my husband just shrugged and admitted that he didn't know the Bible like I did because the Catholic church didn't encourage reading the Bible.

I agree with O'reilly. Every Chinese person, Indian, Japanese, or anyone else who has a different religion - none of them are going to Heaven?! Ridiculous. Christians don't have a lock on the afterlife. I hate PD, but he is right on this one. Give me a break. I'm a Catholic. I'm a good person, I follow the 10 Commandments, the golden rule, etc. Why should I go out of my way to assume some Hindu 8,000 miles away is full of shit and won't go to Heaven because he doesn't believe in Jesus?

[Eva]

What about the Bible verse, "I am the way, the truth and the life and no man cometh unto the father but through me.
Are we to ignore this? Do you believe that the Bible is the word of God or not?

[Remedy]

I agree with O'reilly. Every Chinese person, Indian, Japanese, or anyone else who has a different religion - none of them are going to Heaven?! Ridiculous. Christians don't have a lock on the afterlife. I hate PD, but he is right on this one. Give me a break. I'm a Catholic. I'm a good person, I follow the 10 Commandments, the golden rule, etc. Why should I go out of my way to assume some Hindu 8,000 miles away is full of shit and won't go to Heaven because he doesn't believe in Jesus?

"No Other Name"
A Middle Knowledge Perspective on the Exclusivity of Salvation Through Christ

The conviction of the New Testament writers was that there is no salvation apart from Jesus. This orthodox doctrine is widely rejected today because God's condemnation of persons in other world religions seems incompatible with various attributes of God. Analysis reveals the real problem to involve certain counterfactuals of freedom, e.g., why did not God create a world in which all people would freely believe in Christ and be saved? Such questions presuppose that God possesses middle knowledge. But it can be shown that no inconsistency exists between God's having middle knowledge and certain persons' being damned; on the contrary, it can be positively shown that these two notions are compatible.

[Technogeeb]

I agree with O'reilly. Every Chinese person, Indian, Japanese, or anyone else who has a different religion - none of them are going to Heaven?! Ridiculous.

So you worship a God that sent his only begotten Son to die for the sins of mankind when there was another, equally valid solution that didn't involve Jesus's death? A God that would kill his son when it was unnecessary to do so? Why would you worship a monster like that?

I'm a Catholic

Why? You don't believe Catholic doctrine.

I'm a good person

And if that is all it takes to get to Heaven, then why bother being a Catholic, which teaches it is not?