Lots of things can send a person to hell, but there's one flaw in our thinking that sends most people there.

And that is what I call the good person fallacy. What is that fallacy? Well, I'll tell you.

But since you're a good person, I'm sure you've already hit the subscribe button and you've visited us at trendhornpodcast.com to support what we do here at the council of

Trent. Now many people watching might think that the worst things that could send someone to hell

would be something like atheism or a total rejection of God. Now, while atheists make up about

four to seven percent of the world population, most people who are not religious are not atheists.

They're just not affiliated with any religion, also called nuns. A lot of people who are not religious are not atheists. They're just not affiliated with any religion,

also called nuns. A lot of these people do believe in God, or they believe in some kind of

higher power or supreme being, or at least they're open to the idea. And they're not a moral,

nihilistic relativists. In fact, most people are not true relativists. They believe in some

objective moral rules, usually based on some principle, like it's wrong to harm innocent

people, or don't violate a person's consent. They believe in these moral rules because they think

of themselves as good persons. So instead of being an atheist or a relativist, many people who aren't religious

hold to a view that sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Denton call moralistic therapeutic deism.

They believe in a generic god or a higher power that upholds the world, deism. And they believe that

this being or power wants them to be nice. It's

moralistic. And this being exists primarily to serve them. And prayer is usually just a petition

to this being to get what they want, therapeutic. The almighty God, under this view, becomes a

cosmic vending machine, who only meets out justice against the worst vandals when it's

appropriate. This God just wants us to be good people. He wants me to be a good person. And if I get

to heaven, God will cut me a break because, hey, I'm a good person, aren't I? People who think

this way divide the world into two groups with fuzzy boundaries,

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