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Originally Posted by photon
People do those things outside of church as well.. it's the people that are kind and generous. Are these people that way because the church makes them that way? Or are they attracted to church because of their nature already? Maybe some of both?
People like Dawkins would argue that you are incorrect; that religion as a whole has had a net negative impact on society. I wouldn't venture to take one side or the other; trying to measure the good vs. bad of organizations spanning thousands of years and billions of lives is pretty much impossible. EDIT: Seems impossible rather.
Though I will say in my personal experience I have friends that would be classified as fundamentalists, and a few of them are quite intolerant, to the point of borderline racism and bigotry sometimes. And I know that their views on homosexuals are preached from the pulpit.
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Exactly as I would have said it Photon...man is inherantly good, he doesnt need an institution to do good things.
However in saying that I do applaud those who do good within a theist organization...for the sake of simply being good...not to promote or ensure those they are being good to, join their brethern.