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Old 01-21-2005, 11:17 PM   #21
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By the way...the local people who "dug" Mother Theresa were shunned by their own religions and people.
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Fair enough statement.# Prove it.# I've never heard about this persecution.
For thousands of years the Lepers have been shunned. A leper is shunned by his society and religion as a sinner. They have literally been removed from their families...mostly of the Hindu religion...and banned to camps or Leper cities. This practise still continues even though Leprosy is 100% curable.

There are literally hundreds of stories on the persecution of Lepers.

Soo, religion is responsible for people not liking leprosy? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If lepers all over the world were being excluded, that seems to transcend religion and get into human nature and society.

Blaming religion for intolerance is taking a pretty narrow view, and selectively ignoring TONS of contrary evidence. To say 'religion is intolerant inherently' is akin to saying 'white people are better than black'. Its stupid, subjective, based on personal experience and bias, and a dumb thing to put out there. Can you find evidence that religion is intolerant? Sure. I could also find a white guy who's smarter than a black guy. I could also find the opposite... unless I never looked for it.
how about you do some research...then well talk. [/b][/quote]
Bit of a cop out. Care to point me in the right direction for this research? Or even what topic you're talking about?

Mother Theresa helped the poor, not just the Lepers. She was revered for doing a wide variety of things to assist the Indian people. I have no idea where Lepers even came into this, or how you blame religion solely for their reviled status.
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Old 01-22-2005, 12:02 AM   #22
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There have been a lot of accusations like this flying around... probably the most notable one is the Christian Children's fund (one of the largest IMO), where they force children to convert in order to give them aid.

This might just be a small minority of Christian groups... but nonetheless it is quite sickening.

I donate my money to the red cross/unicef whenever I give money just to make sure this type of thing doesn't happen. (I hate to cast all christian groups in this kind of light, but at least I know my money is going to a 'quality' organization).
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Old 01-22-2005, 02:25 AM   #23
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You guys ever send those shoeboxes over to 3rd world countries over Christmas? That's done by Samaritan's purse, a wholly Christian Organization. Much of the actual work in tediously inspecting every box to make sure that nothing offensive is in them is done in warehouses by thousands of volunteer workers (usually teen groups from Churches actually).

There is never any pressure to convert. They just give out boxes indiscriminately to needy children who've never had a gift in their lives.
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