Enchanced Spirit: What about religions like Islam that specifically reject the divinity of Christ? Aren't you basically just saying that all good people go to heaven? Does one have to follow a religion at all to go to heaven?
The problem with abandoning logic as a means to examine faith is that our logic is God-given. If God gave us logic and reasoning and then expected us to go against it, God would pretty much be an *******.
Furthermore, this speaks to my point that people often do make decisions of faith based upon logic, and whether that is the right thing to do or not, they do it. This does not make them bad people. In fact, I would go so far as to say what religion you choose has little or no bearing on how good of a person you become. So unless you believe that good people go to hell, religion can have nothing to do with how a person is judged in the hereafter.
The standard Christian response is that all people are inherently fallen and sinful because we all sinned when Eve and Adam sinned, and because God is perfect and can have nothing to do with sin, the standard to get into heaven is perfection and the only way to do this is by accepting Jesus Christ. However, human beings were created inherently imperfect, and for God to make the standard something which goes against our very nature would just be wrong. It would be analogous to creating a person with a gimp leg and expecting them to be able to run fast, and when they can't do that you torture them for eternity.
Another response is that human beings were, in fact, created perfect and that we ruined that perfection through original sin. But how can a perfect being sin? That goes against the definition of perfection. Maybe we were near perfect, but we weren't perfect. Some people say that to love, one must be able to hate and we were given free will, and thus it was a 'sin.' Aside from the fact that this completely ignores the first argument (that a truly perfect being could commit no sin), I would say that this is also false. Just look at babies. Capable of love, incapable of hate.
If you believe that if a person does not accept your religion then they will go to hell, you must also believe that rejecting your religion makes them a bad person in some way (they must be rejecting it because of something evil within them, or else it would just be a logical decision and that would not be worthy of hell.) But people do have logical, heartfelt, and emotional reasons for rejecting all faiths, and objectively, there is no correlation between how good a person is in this life and what religion they choose. There are good people in all faiths, and unless you believe that good people go to hell, religion can have nothing to do with whether or not a person goes to heaven. If I could just 'ask my heart' and find the true religion, I would gladly do so. But I know in my heart that any religion that says I have to practice it to get to heaven is just wrong, because I know that believing in or practicing a particular religion doesn't make anyone a better person, because circumstance plays such a large role in what religion people choose.
To me, it is sick and twisted to believe that good people go to hell just because they don't accept a particular religion. Therefore, I reject any religion that says this. Apparently, that makes me worthy of hell.