The Christians

i watched this play yesterday at the Ngee Ann Kongsi theater. I was a bit apprehensive after Harish’s rather negative comments from his visit last week. He wasn’t impressed and found it depressing.

Fortunately I did not have a negative view about the play. It was just right in terms of length. Lasted an hour and a half without any intermission.

The entire premise of the play is about a pastor who decides that because the logical conclusion of what Christians believe is that anyone who doesn’t believe in Jesus must go to hell and that all who believe go to heaven, there cannot be a hell because he suddenly realized that there are people who never would have had the opportunity to even hear about Jesus but who were good people. Surely they cannot be condemned to hell.

Anyway this is the fundamental problem that I have always had with Christianity. It condemns all good people who don’t believe in Jesus, even if there was absolutely no chance for them to even have heard about Jesus.

The other problem is that Christians believe that if they believe in Jesus they will be in heaven for eternity. That has always struck me as wrong. Many of the Christians are not even good people. Why should they be in heaven just because they have said they believe in Jesus even though they were horrible on Earth.

And if you accept the premise that whether you have a good afterlife or not depends on your deeds while you are living, then believing in Jesus becomes irrelevant.

I suspect that is the problem. To sell a religion one must promise something so that people believe. A good afterlife is the safest bet.