What is Exclusivism? (Philosophy of Religion)

This is a description of the religious position about the afterlife called exclusivism which claims that only people who both believe in that religion and act according to its code will get into "The Good Place" in their afterlife. This is contrasted with Inclusivism and Pluralism.

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[michaelpisciarino]

A view of the afterlife
0:43 Abide by the standards. Hold the beliefs. Evangelize others.
2:28 Variations
3:03 Not all people make it into “The Good Place”
3:48 Questions for thought 💭

You are part of an exclusive group of true Do gooders who will be rewarded for your good deeds in the afterlife

[governmnt]

I think it's extremely screwed up to believe only those in your group are saved and everyone else is damned. It leads to people disregarding the humanity of others.

[BrettWrightsPage]

The way the Church of a Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints justifies their exclusivism is that each individual will have an opportunity in this life and/or in the afterlife before a final judgement.

This, along with the prophecy they follow that “Every knee shall bow and tongue confess that Jesus is Lord”, ironically turns the views to an inclusive religion. Just with a longer timeline than other religions.

[campbellbailey]

Heaven is listening to your exclusive voice

[gsaxtell]

You focus on soteriological (inclusivism, and pluralism, but an overlapping concern is doctrinal exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism. These are sometimes confused, but the soteriological one about divine judgment is the more important one. it seems to me unreasonable to take an exclusivist stance, since you are basically saying that your ingroup in religiously "lucky" to have the 'one true' salvific path 0:58 x

[eammonful]

Make sure to include a discussion of invincible ignorance in the longer video

[zainabamiri]

Does evangelicalism have the only meaning you mentioned?

[Mambakickboxing]

This is my biggest objection to religion

[jonezzjazz]

The audio is so poor, listening is awful -- it gets too soft, then suddenly spikes you in the ear. Please work on your diction and mic technique.

[danielbowden]

I won't try to make a case for it here, but I call myself a christian "exclusivist universalist" since I believe the Bible teaches that every person will eventually believe and follow God.

A lot of people seem to think that an "exclusivist" position comes comes from not liking the people who are being exluded, as if we were elitists wanting to exclude people from an exclusive club. ;) That certainly seems true about some exclusavists but not all exclusivists. Exclusivism is not [necessarily] about making up bounderies to exclude people as if we did not like or love them, it is about ackowledging that there are logically necessary conditons to be saved and being a likeable or nice person is not enough. God doesn't love people based on their niceness or outward purity, if He did, He would not fully love any human since none of us are nice and likeable or pure at all times. God loves people because He is a loving being and He regards us as indisposably profoundly precious, for reasons which have nothing to do with our moral performance or friendliness. Most religions and most atheists seem to believe or at least act as if our worth or lovability is tied to our moral performance, the christian concepts of "grace" and love are opposed to that idea.

I have an agnostic/atheist brother and also an agnostic dad and I do not consider them brothers in the faith even though I like and also love them more than most of my brothers in the faith. Because I love them, I find it all the more difficult to be satified with them being decieved or ignorant of God. I would characterize George MacDonald as an example of an "exclusivist universalist" and his "Unspoken Sermons" and some of his books are good examples of the logic behind loving and compassionate exclusivism. God is not satified with someone being deprived of the truth of the gospel, He is not satified with us living under the tyranny of false beliefs. A god who did not love us might be satified with us being eternally decieved, but not our loving God. Note that I say nothing about christian morality being required to enter heaven. Christian theology teaches that we "get into heaven" by having a trusting relationship with God, not by doing good deeds, nor by affirming the right doctrines, but good deeds are a side effect of having a good relationship with God.

[KeeChai-dpmn]

This person seems not understand what exclusivism really mean!

[MendTheWorld]

I'm running an informal opinion poll: Which is the most absurd
"one-word oxymoron" in the history of language?
a) the "afterlife" (that is, remaining alive after you're dead) or
b) "rationalization" (for example, the justification of such inherently contradictory phenomena as "the afterlife")
Please vote in Reply. Thx!

[mohammadraad]

Is Carneades the trying to evangelicalise dogmatists ;)

[mohammadtayyb]

Here you are wrong. Like in Islam if you die befor the age of puberty you guaranteed the haven, and I'd you never consider te meet a Muslim or have a good idea of islam and you are a good person and believe in one god you will be tested again and not wat you said of vanishing in hell.

[maiku]

Some Christians, such as Calvinists, believe no human can be a truly good person since all humans are fallen due to sin (""total depravity"") . For such believers, access to the "good place" comes one-sidedly (i.e. monergism) and unconditionally (i.e. election) as a free gift from God (the lyrics of Amazing Grace recap the idea very briefly); "good works" have no bearing on election (though the other direction is possible: good works may well COME from election and may be an indicator of election). I know that you don't have time to explain every credal twist, but this is clearly a form of exclusivism that falls outside your generalized definition.

[thebibleformula]

There is only one way to heaven: the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.