One question for religious folks here, why is good not good enough?
As far as the Christian perspective goes, being "good" is not the point to salvation. It has nothing to do with what God expects for salvation. The idea that "good people should go to heaven" is a man-made idea.
If you consider Jesus a man, then yes. But as a Christian you don't, so here's a few examples of why being "good" (living a virtuous life, being kind and generous, etc) has everything to do with going to heaven according to Jesus himself.
"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter."
(Matthew 7:21)
"Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
(Matthew 5:48)
"Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me."
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
(Matthew 25)
28 “What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
29 “‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.
30 “Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go.
31 “Which of the two did what his father wanted?”
“The first,” they answered.
(Matthew 21)
To me it is glaringly obvious that Jesus intended his followers to believe that their behavior would determine whether or not they went to heaven.
I would agree with Vindicated that the idea of salvation coming simply from accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior is man made.
And, as a cultural catholic, I am quite peeved by the insinuation and stereotyping that we don't know the faith and we don't know the scriptures. I'm not leaving Christianity because I haven't studied it closely enough, I'm leaving it because I've discovered contradictions, errors, and disconnects that no bible scholar or church father can address effectively (though it's not for lack of effort, and I do appreciate the minds of scholars like NT Wright, Thomas Aquinas, Fr. Barron, Fr. James Martin, Augustine, Popes Francis, Leo XIII, JPII, etc).
But before I sing the praises of the Catholic Church, I should share that my brother just told me his wife is pregnant with their fourth right now. That'll be 4 under 4. I have a one year old, so I imagine 4 under 4 is a straight up nightmare. This baby was not planned (I'm actually not sure if any were, but after their third he told me they wanted to take a very long break). I've talked to him about how I don't believe and he's actually in a pretty similar place. But we're both married to quite faithful Catholics. And while I find that contraception enables promiscuous behavior among those who are too immature to be having sex, I don't see why it should be wrong for committed couples. Well, I guess I do if you are of the belief that God is very particular about what he wants. "Whatever God wants" or "Put it in God's hands" kind of goes out the window if you use contraception. Which it should in this case, because God has given us minds and hearts to decide how many kids we want... without having to act like teenagers when we want to express our love.