...which shows how religion is a no lose proposition.
It was recently revealed that Mother Theresa had no faith in god. Now the Catholic Church is using that as an argument for god's grace. I just don't get it. Christians have argued all along that "no one goes unto the Father except through" Jesus. And one of the fundamental tenants of that is that you must believe. Otherwise, anyone gets salvation and of course, you can't have that.
It's like that argument that babies who die at birth or prematurely automatically go to heaven. Huh? Christians can't even get their doctrine straight. They simply pick and choose what feels good to them - basically creating their religion in their own image. Here's news for you. The Christian religion says that babies go to hell. That's the whole concept of Original Sin.
Psalm 51:4,5
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.Of course, there are Christian apologists who would argue that we are not born in sin and will quote other passages to try to support that view. But the basic argument comes down to no good god could condemn a child to hell.
In any case, here's a Hitchen's article on Mother Theresa:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20497111/site/newsweek/And a Sam Harris article that mentions her:
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/sam_harris/2007/08/the_sacrifice_of_reason.html