(July 11, 2016 at 7:00 am)chimp3 Wrote: So , Christian Charities send believers all around the world just to hug people. Isn't that special. A tax write off too.
https://missionfinder.org/organizations/.../hugteams/
I know people who have done this. Groups of churchgoers at $1000 a person or more flying to Uganda and Honduras. I blame this on those goofy songs that kids learn in Vacation Bible Schools. "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" and "This Little Light of Mine". Do Christians believe they are so special that it is worth the money and carbon footprint to fly half way around the globe to distribute hugs? The level of hubris stuns me.
Would not this money be better spent digging wells for clean water, opening schools and medical clinics, advocating for equality for women?
It's part of a one two punch. The good cop bad cop game. People like Pat Robertson piss on us and the charities come along to tell us it's rain.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
