&gt; An altar call is supposed to make you feel bad. It is supposed to make you feel guilty.<p>Maybe that&#x27;s not quite &quot;you&#x27;re a bad person&quot;. But I feel like your reading is missing the &quot;you should feel bad&quot; aspect.<p>That chapter resonates with me too, because it&#x27;s pretty much exactly the sentiment I&#x27;m disagreeing with. Supposedly it doesn&#x27;t matter what you <i>do</i>, it matters what you <i>feel</i>.<p>No, that&#x27;s exactly wrong. If you do the right thing, that&#x27;s good. If you do the wrong thing, that&#x27;s bad. It doesn&#x27;t matter what you were feeling when you did it.<p>Love makes people do some really shitty things. &quot;I love you and I want you to not go to hell, so I&#x27;m going to beat the gay out of you&quot;, for example. That love is genuine, and it doesn&#x27;t redeem the action.<p>The opposite is true as well, where people do good while hating it every minute. (No good example comes immediately to mind, and I&#x27;m spending too long on this post.) They don&#x27;t lose points for having unvirtuous emotions. They did good, and that&#x27;s enough.