The Criteria for Heaven: Just?

One thing Christians love to say is that Jesus is the only way, hence John 14:16 where Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me."   One might see this as shere arrogance devoid of compassion, but Christians would then explain the whole Adam and Eve story which in itself has a lot of holes.  But today, I am going to focus on the immorality of this belief system.  Apparently, all you need to do to get into heaven is believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and rose from the grave, which in essence is accepting Jesus as your Savior, and having a relationship with god.  It is not about what kind of life you lived.  It's all about stroking a god's ego.  It says that I could spend my life swindling money from the elderly, the infirmed, and the poverty-stricken, and all I have to do is accept Jesus as my savior and I will get into heaven.  But if I spent my days working to improve the quality of life for the elderly, the infirmed, and the poverty-stricken,but I did not accept Jesus as my savior, I will go to hell.  I don't find that as just and neither do a lot of people.  But unfortunately, there also a lot of people who find it to be just.  It is so ingrained into their psyches, that when Carlton Pearson, once famous televangelist, changed his views on hell, he became a pariah to the church community.  To say that this is just is to stick your head in the sand and close your eyes to reality.  Reality is that there are people who have been born and died never hearing of Jesus Christ.  Reality is that there are people like me who were once Christian,suffered intolerably, left the belief behind, and are thriving as a result.  Reality is that there are people who just don't want to live forever at all.  Maybe one day, people will come to these realizations and either reassess their ideology, or trash it.

Born Deserving of Punishment

Maybe it is because I was exposed to fundamentalist Christianity, however, the idea is reprehensible.  It is an idea that denigrates little children and is an absolute slap in the face of the undeniable fact that in most cases, children are more forgiving than us adults.  The idea is that children are born deserving of hell, not for what they could have possibly done, but because of what their two ancestors Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden.  For the fundamentalist, this is just because it is the work of their god  (Yahweh, Jehovah, El Elyon, God) , who is according to them just and wise.  For those of us who are not tied to the religion, we should realize the utter depravity in this idea.  What kind of a loving and just being punishes children for the misdeeds of their ancestors?  I cannot think of one. And interestingly, in spite of this denigrating concept, these Christians are more than likely pro life people.  That's right.  They not only say that your children are born worthy of hell, but they are also fighting so that you can never have an abortion.  Just in case you wanted to dispatch your future baby to heaven before he or she can screw up and be condemned.  Parents, if you taught your children that they were born deserving of your wrath, do you believe for one second that you would get away with that?  No. Child Protective Services would rightfully deem you an unfit parent and take your children away from you.  So in conclusion, let me say that if this belief is true, it then reflects poorly on the creator of this plan.  It says that the creator is not secure in itself, so it must make its creations flawed in order for the creator to feel better about himself.  How interesting and pitiful.