What Saves You

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Flint

The sign in question seems to suggest that being a good person counts for nothing.

I didn't read it that way, but I think it was deliberately worded to make people think.

Originally Posted by Flint

I didn't say a word about Christ's teachings. I have nothing but the deepest innermost respect, down to the core of my being, for Christ's teachings. The exploitative teachings of Christianity, which use Jesus as a recruitment tool, and bear little resemblence to his actual message, are an entirely different subject. Conflating the two is deeply troubling to me, on a personal level. It is disrespectful to Jesus.

Fair enough.

I assume that if the message is outside a Christian church then the people who respond to the message will be Christians, or looking to become Christians. And the central tenet of Christianity is not "look out for number one"