Tim McNamara
1/16/2010 5:36:00 PM
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<4eacffa6-1843-4291-bf7f-84c3c037a85f@a15g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
Great White Buffalo <bandsite@cox.net> wrote:
> On Jan 13, 6:50?pm, Max <hepkatreetaroo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 13, 3:44?pm, tom walls <tomwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Jan 13, 4:49?pm, Max <hepkatreetaroo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > Send money instead, it's much more useful. Doctors Without
> > > > ?Borders, Mercy Corp, Red Cross, it doesn't matter. Prayers are
> > > > cheap, money works.
> >
> > > Spoken like a true idiot.
> >
> > GFY. Prayer never helped anyone. Money buys shovels. Religious
> > fanatics pls feel free to huff and puff. Then send money.
>
> It's the people who do pray, who believe in something bigger than
> themselves, who feel a social responsibility to others because of the
> human dust-to-dust experience we share who contribute largely.
Dude, that's just a rank generalization that has little or nothing to do
with reality. There are plenty of selfish religious people and plenty
of selfless atheists. And vice versa. Most people fall somewhere in
between, of course.
> To wit: the US Government on behalf of its 300 million citizens has
> pledged $100M in relief to Haiti. An infinitely smaller organization,
> Catholic Relief Services, has pledged $25M. And those lousy bums in
> the UN? A paltry $6M.
Those lousy bums at the UN mostly come from countries that are
constitutionally religious- e.g., they have a state religion. The US is
one of the relatively few countries that does not have a state religion-
religious freedom being one of the reasons the US exists.
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"I wear the cheese, it does not wear me."