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Originally posted by MolsonInBothHands@Sep 1 2005, 09:02 AM
Unfortunately, there are bad apples in any religion, who will twist divine words of inspiration into a means of profit or war mongering. I consider them a minority, but too much attention is focused on the minority, and not the people who give there lives to helping others in the name of their god.
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I disagree. I've read a lot of Saul Alinsky, and he wrote this true story in one of his books:
A rather wealthy man, feeling guilty about things he had done in his life, decided he would live the rest of his time living as Jesus would. He went to a poor part of town and started giving his cash away. Hundreds of people poured into the streets. A huge crowd gathered around him.. people who needed this money for food, rent, whatever.
Very quickly, a christian cop arrested him for inciting a riot and disturbing the peace. A christian lawyer argued against him and a christian judge found him guilty. For a lot of people, their religion is about being able to hate gays, pro-choice people, people of other religions and still feel good about themselves, while completely ignoring the words and ways of their saviour. It is a very, very few christians that openly want to help poor people, as this fellow in the story. It is the vast majority who want to help themselves, but still feel good about it. When the day comes that majority of christians live on just what they need, as Jesus did, then I'll believe claims that it is the minority causing all the problems.