Bryan Cross Uncharitably Caricatures "the Sacramental Treadmill"

Bryan Cross has uncharitably caricatured the easy-to-understand portrayal of the Roman Catholic system of works, which we know as the sacramental treadmill. He has called it a "performance treadmill picture in which one never knows whether one has one enough merit to be justified, is an utter caricature of the Catholic doctrine".

Bryan's portrayal suggests that the sacramental treadmill is merely not knowing whether one has enough merit to be justified. But that's not the true picture of all that the sacramental treadmill represents. Rather, simply put, the true sacramental treadmill represents virtually all the "stuff you gotta do for the rest of your life" as a Roman Catholic. Over and over again. Of course, if you look at the chart, it does correctly identify, in algorithm form, all the things one must "do" as a Roman Catholic -- the "precepts of the church", etc, -- in addition to mere "good works performed out of love".