On 5/10/05, S. Isaac Dealey wrote: > My objection was to your apparent claim that Christians have been the > _best_ source of charity for 2000 years.
Read it again, I never claimed Christian charities have been around 2k years. I said religious charities. Right now in the US Christianity is the most common religion so they probably do the most charity but that wasn't my point. Our government is only a couple hundred years old and they do a lousy job at charity. Charity, which I thought started after the destruction of the second temple but now I know it started earlier, was started by religions and is still done by religions. Religions, unnamed, have been doing it longer and better then the US government. That's my point. > As I said, I posted a clarification which you've decided to > conveniently forget. I didn't forget it. It had nothing to do with what we're talking about. You go into your tirade about the evils of Christianity and I'm talking about charity. Stay focused. > Above and beyond the inability to evaluate the effectiveness of > charity stretching back 2000 years, the violence perpetrated in the > name of God by Christians in that time more than negates any benefits > which might have been seen from a 10% or even a 5% tithe anyway. > > "Gee, thousands dead, but they have very few poor people, we should > make them responsible for our money." Not a good answer. > > So if a murderer has "a good track record" of dealing with children, > does this mean we should hire him as a school teacher? If he's out of jail wouldn't it be discrimination not to hire him? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:156991 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
