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Originally Posted by Skiy
Comical and classic. Gos from mind your own business and who cares what you believe, followed by a paragraph laying into organized religion in Africa and the absolute harm it's inflicted.
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we agree on something! take your own advice (i.e. mind your own business.) or if you care enough to post, don't tell us not to... apparently everyone posting here enjoys doing so and sees a benefit.
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Originally Posted by Skiy
Those darn organized Christian charities, how dare they offer help and hope to the poor. Until the unicorn salvation army steps in during a time of crisis, I'm not impressed by your rant.
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in 2006, $295 billion was given to charity. of that, $96 billion, a VERY respectable number, but a MINORITY was donated to religious organizations and charities.
When disaster strikes, the government and organizations like the red cross come to help. neither is religious. (the red cross's name and symbol relate to medicine, not religion) I'm not discounting the help offered by religious organizations, but you should you exagurate their benefit or exclusivity.
all the good religion does would still be done without religion. and it doesn't make up for all the bad religion does, not all of which would still be done without religion.
none of this is relevant to the original subject, which I'd like to repeat as we approach the record 100 pages:
can you prove god exists?
I'd have to look at all 99 pages, but to my recollection, no one from the belief side has yet admitted that the answer is
no, or that it even
could be no. we know you can have faith, which means belief without proof. but that's not the question.