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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I think you, and everyone else on this thread, and almost everyone who reads the news, misunderstood what the Pope said:

Jesus suffered and died for every human being who has ever lived.  His redemption is offered to all.  The vast majority of human being who have ever lived never heard the name "Jesus."  But every human can know Jesus, the second Person of the Holy Trinity, one of the three Persons in one God, our Creator, because He has written His word on our hearts:  do good and reject evil.

So of course atheists, and Moses, and Socrates, and Native Americans, and Anne Frank, and Gandhi, could possibly go to heaven, because Christ redeemed them.  But every human being has a choice to accept redemption, or not:  my will, not thine, or thy will, be mine.

One aspect of aligning our will with His involves doing His will on earth--doing good, not evil.  Every person has the capacity to choose good, over evil.

So for the hypothetical, “But I don’t believe, Father, I am an atheist!’” Pope Francis gave the emphatic reply: “But do good: we will meet one another there.”

(Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lauren-enk/2013/05/23/media-claims-pope-gave-atheists-pass-heaven#ixzz2UFaOAb6o)

Because IF a person is doing good, s/he is, in fact, doing God's will, even if s/he refuses to acknowledge the Source of all Good, the source of Justice and Truth.  It is possible to stumble across Truth, without realizing it.[/quote]

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