At 03:59 PM Thursday 6/23/2005, William T Goodall wrote:
On 23 Jun 2005, at 9:36 pm, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:44:05 +0100, William T Goodall wrote
Indeed I find the whole idea of faith-based 'charitable'
organisations getting involved with vulnerable people utterly
obnoxious. They quite plainly have a not-so-hidden agenda, and aid
being tied to evangelism is simply disgusting and reprehensible.
So we should leave it to the people who are half as likely to do
*anything*?
Let's see, that would reduce the number of people helping the needy
by two-
thirds.
Or you could have one of those socialist welfare systems like we
Europeans have where the needy are cared for by social workers and
other professionals paid for out of taxes. Professionals who face
disciplinary action should they attempt to evangelise their clients.
It's a symptom of how infested and rotten with religion America is
that Americans think charities controlled by partisan and
unaccountable religious organisations are preferable to a proper
social welfare system.
Can you point to any specific examples (past or present) of the
implementation of a "proper social welfare system" which is deserving of
emulation?
-- Ronn! :)
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