"Salvation comes through faith, not works."
*addressing a hypothetical fundie*First, if you're saying that, you're arguing that you have a literal God-given right to be an asshole. What does that say about your strength of character?
Second, if you're saying that now, why don't you try saying it when your church passes around the collection plate? I suspect that your priest will inform you that tithing is a good work that
is required, after all.
Third, and arguably most of all, you faithful few only seem to apply that "works don't matter" litany about
yourselves (see point #1). If it
is true that all a believer needs to do to get off God's shit list is believe, then it shouldn't matter what music you like, or what movies you watch, or with whom/how often/in what positions you have sex, or whether/how often you drink alcohol, or anything else of the sort. Yet, when the subject of various "immoral" activities comes up, it seems to be people like you who complain the loudest about how we need to stop causing the world to fall apart by means of our "immorality".