Why aren't religions that preach Universal Redemption in the afterlife more popular?

[istanbul]

Wouldn't people be more at peace knowing their known ones not part of their religion will fare well in the afterlife regardless? I say this because shit like Jehovah's Witnesses are decently popular despite having very invasive beliefs and teaching that a very small number of people will go to heaven

 

[Nihilma]

Because evil ?

 

[SoytanEnthusiast]

You don't seem to understand how humans work

 

[istanbul]

You don't seem to understand how humans work

Enlighten me

Because evil ?

What do you mean?

 

['gatorfag sl33p]

All Jehovah's witnesses (Jehovah's testicles albeit, it's a ñ joke) I've seen are the most rotten and evil living beings you can find in this world, even worse, they're all converts who saw "salvation" after being the worst insufferable piece of crap ever, while being Christians, and retain their evilness even after conversion.

 

[Nihilma]

Enlighten me

What do you mean?

If sky daddy real but evil real too, then evil must have a purpose.
Purpose being free will. But if free will exists and hell doesn't, then there is no free will to begin with and evil has no purpose. It just "exists".
A good God who saves everyone yet still allows evil to exist is a sadist.

Most religions teach that man must chose to be saved, some go as far as to say that man saves himself.
Christianity and Islam are the only two religions I know of that state that man cannot save himself, but that God saves man.
So this philosophy of "everyone should be saved" is actually a philosophy that birthed from christianity, from people who do not understand it's foundation on free will and justice.

 

[Aedra]

Because that would essentially be a religion that doesn't stand for anything other than "everyone is... Le good!". It's weak and passive. Invasive beliefs are popular precisely because they have such strong and clearly defined boundaries. And obviously a faith that doesn't try to spread will naturally get destroyed while an invasive one will survive since being so invasive prevents it from dying. Hence why paganism in Europe did not survive while Christianity did, or how Islam prevailed over Zoroastrianism in Iran. Pagans not wanting to force anyone to be part of their faith *was* their weak point, tolerance in this case is simply weakness waiting to be exploited.