I guess the first place the start exploring why good people need Jesus is with this question: Are there any good people?

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So when we hear people say, “I know atheists who are more loving than Christians,” that statement tends to be pretty narrow and politically circumscribed. You are not, in point of fact, talking about unconditional and universal love and kindness.
If being “a good person” is being kind to the ungrateful and the evil I don’t know many good people. And yet, I do think these people have existed. We call them saints. And most of them, as best I can tell, have been people who believed in God, or at least in some inviolate and sacred value system that called them to and sustained their heroic sacrifices. When love gets hard and real you need more than a reputation among your friends that you listen well over coffee and throw lovely dinner parties.
- Note: God is one path to being this kind of good person, but perhaps not the only path. Are there more Christian saints than non-Christian ones? Has Christendom raised the level of saintliness in society, Christian and otherwise?e