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Originally Posted by LaBelleDameSansMerci
This.
It makes me think of all the Christians who try to convert people because their beliefs are wrong and/or inferior, and are perceived to be a threat. Trying to browbeat people by calling them stupid and generally being incendiary (to use Kontan's term) will not get you very far, if anywhere. Reasonable discussion, rather than contempt, will get you a much broader audience.
Think of it as planting a seed of doubt in soil you haven`t salted or otherwise abused.
I am not arguing that religious charity is better than secular charity. I am arguing that they both have the potential to be good, and they both have the potential for flaws.
I *am* arguing that going to a place with a bunch of other people every week where they announce charitable opportunites makes people more likely to do it because it's convenient.
I know that you guys have done a whole bunch of charity work, and I commend you on that - I really do, and wish I had the energy to do more for my fellow humans. It's just that a lot of people (like me) are lazy bums and don't really go hunting for such things, and if the opportunity to do charity work is presented to such lazy bums, more of them are more likely to go out and do it. Not all, but more.
Alan - Nothing makes religious goodness better than human goodness.
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You know what... I'm beyond talking to you. If you said this to my face, I'd spit in your eye and you'd deserve it for saying such stupid shit.
What I'm doing is not EVEN the same fucking thing. You take the language out of context and try to put a spin on it, saying that an action that's nearly identical is indeed the same action because the context itself is meaningless. Well mother FUCK you. You really are stupid.