Everyone is basically good, and almost everyone will go to heaven?

In the following posts, I will be attempting to share some sort of a Q & A series taken from Karl Keating's book "What Catholics Really Believe" which I thought was pretty appropriate for this blog's originally intended purpose, and that is to educate and inform Lukewarm Christians, in particular Catholics, about common misconceptions of our Catholic faith and teachings and thereby find ourselves living the faith merely in mediocrity or none at all. Sometimes I may add or edit a few to make some more points or added emphasis.

#30 Everyone is basically good, and almost everyone will go to heaven

Is that so? Haven't you been reading the headlines? Is the abortionist a good fellow? How about the drug pusher? What about the incessant fornicator? What about those who seem to build their lives around a particular sin? (e.g., Adultery, Murder, Theft, Domestic violence, Perjury, Swindling, etc.) Have they given their hearts over to Christ... or is it to their passions?

The common idea that most people will go to heaven arises, perhaps, from a lack of a sense of the seriousness of sin and from a concentration on God's mercy to the exclusion of his justice. More than that, the idea is that he will save even those who don't want to be saved. God will be merciful, but only to those asking for his mercy. He won't force his mercy or his salvation on anyone. Salvation is a free gift, which, as with any gift, can be declined. We have no good reason to think that there will be only a few decliners. How can we think such a thing, having lived through the bloodiest, cruelest century in human history.

“Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today

is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin.” - Pope Pius XII

"God do not send people to hell.

Hell is made up of no one but volunteers." - Dr. D. A.

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