Not to make anyone feel uncomfortable, but he also talks about religion, God specifically. He says that Christians tend to make the mistake that we feel that God should forgive us because we deserve it. " But as my audiences taught me, and as a moment's reflection might teach us all, sometimes we want to hear the father's message that we are loved because we deserve it, not only because the other person is so generous and tolerant." Christians need to realize that we are not forgiven because we deserve it, but because God is generous enough to forgive us. Even in everyday life. A friend tells you a secret, " Please, don't tell anyone", she says. But you can't help but to tell someone else and it gets around school and guess what, your friend hates you. Now when you approach her and tell her how sorry you are, don't say, and I mean DON'T say, Well... you should forgive me because I DERSERVE it. If that happens you might want to go friend shopping. That friendship is no longer. But you plead for forgiveness because you know she doesn't have to forgive if she doesn't want to. Hopefully she does. " People need to hear the same message from God that children need to hear from their earthly parents. Just as it is an unforgettably comforting and necessary experience for a child caught doing something wrong to be forgiven and to learn that parental love is a gift that will not be arbitrarily withdrawn, a lesson no child should grow up without absorbing, so it is a vital part of everyone's religious upbringing to learn that God's love is not tentative, that our failures do not alienate us from God."