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K.D. Lightner said:Somehow, I think that the greatest moral person in the universe is the one who strives to give and serve, and yet has no hope of heaven.
Or am I just a cock-eyed existentialist?
karol
I'm not trying to put words into your mouth, but if I can interpret your post, what you seem to be saying is "self-less love is better than selfish love." I.e., it presumes that the charitable people of any religion are doing their good deeds in order to get to heaven. For some of them, that's undoubtedly true. After having read about any number of saints (Catholic ones), however, it seems that most of them do what they do purely out of a love for God. So, when Mother Theresa was tending to the poor, I sort of doubt she was thinking "this'll get me into heaven." Instead she was probably striving (and succeeding to) see Christ in the lowliest and downtrodden members of society.