A Conversation from YouTube

Apparently I left a comment on a YouTube video a few months ago.  It was one of these Kirk Cameron "Way of the Master" street evangelism kind of things where he makes you admit you're a sinner and shouldn't you accept Jesus to avoid damnation?

I wrote:

The woman makes a good point. Is eternal suffering and damnation an appropriate punishment for the occasional sin?  Isn't it strange that rapists, murderers, and thieves can repent and go to heaven?  Isn't it strange that "disbelief" the only unforgivable sin?

I forgot I wrote this, until I got a response back and was notified via email:

Well, everyone is a sinner. No one is perfect. However, if we repent and ask for forgiveness, we will have eternal life. That's the message here. :)

To which I responded:

Then disbelievers can never be saved, because by definition, they can't ask for forgiveness.

And he wrote back:

Yep. You're right.

So everyone is a sinner (apparently), yet only those who ask for forgiveness can be saved.  This necessarily excludes atheists (let's leave aside small children, mentally handicapped, other religions, etc). Only Christians go to heaven.
 
On a very fundamental, this does not make sense to me.  Not only that, but it shouldn't make sense to any decent person.  It's not fair.

Now, if the Christians would actually step back and say "We don't claim our religion is just or moral.  It actually does reward thoughtless sycophants rather than honest, intellectual seekers of the truth (mistaken though they may be)", then I wouldn't have a problem.  But Christianity claims God to have granted and bestowed this sense of right and wrong and fairness upon us, but then doesn't play by it's own rules.