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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No my religion doesn't make me good.

The Holy Spirit hopefully is sanctifying me and making me good, though. But it's a long, slow, often painful process. And it won't be complete on earth.[/quote]

The holy spirit is part of your religion, right?  So you are good because of your religion, right?  [/quote]

NP I understood op's question to mean does the concept of religion make you good, not necessarily any particular religion.[/quote]

OP here. I meant does your particular religion (i.e., the rules, strictures, teachings) make you good.[/quote]

Christianity would adamantly say that its rules can't make you good. That requires the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ (though Christians argue about how exactly that part works).

[quote]Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. [b]For by works of the law no human being will be justified[/b] in his [God's] sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.[/quote] 
(Romans 3:19-20 ESV, emphasis mine)[/quote]

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