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Originally Posted by peter12
No, quite the opposite, actually. What I meant is that on a fairly concrete scale, communities with a strong moral and religious centre tend to weather storms better than those without, especially given that Western social safety nets and institutions are decaying.
Religious communities provide charity, but also moral support, and indeed, judgement that help people who are down get back up.
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Do you have anything to back this up?
And religious communities do provide charity and moral support but you know who else does as well? About 50 agencies downtown for the homeless, abused women, drug abusers and so on. And they do just fine doing it without being a church.