President Trump dialed into “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday morning and revealed his newest and truest motivation for brokering an end to the war in Ukraine: He’s worried he might not get into heaven after he dies.
“I want to try and get to heaven, if possible,” he explained. “I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.”
lmao?
That’s something I don’t understand about the whole “Jesus forgives all” thesis. Like, if Hitler said he was truly sorry, would they let him into heaven? How is Christ’s forgiveness meant to work? (I was raised atheist in an area with not a lot of Xtians so I don’t really know how this stuff works.)
Depends on the sect. Most Protestant sects believe that ‘true belief in salvation only coming from the crucification of Jesus Christ’ is enough. Others believe in heavenly predestination. And others still believe that you are cleansed during baptism, which occurs when you are an adult, and only everything that you do afterwards counts. Catholics believe that if you do good works, fully confess your sins and perform the assigned penance before you die, you will be forgiven of your sins and go to heaven (or at least reduce your time in purgatory). And it’s best to regularly confess, because forgetting you sinned does not save you from it.
I mean, yeah, that is pretty much it. It’s thst “truly sorry” part that does the heavy lifting. “Sorry I got caught” or “sorry I have to face consequences” isn’t gonna cut it. Neither is just saying it. Hitler would have to actually BE sorry, like, on a level of feeling real empathy for everyone he hurt, admitting that he’s a fucking monster, and wanting to not be one anymore. Up to you whether you think he’s capable of such a thing. He sure wasn’t within his lifetime.
I mean, I don’t necessarily believe that eternal damnation should be the way to go, but it seems fairly nuts that if Hitler genuinely felt bad then that’s all it would take for him to get into heaven. Like, he doesn’t even have to do any good actions to counteract what he did? Not that it matters to me given that I don’t believe in the afterlife but that just seems pretty unbalanced is all