Some people need a carrot. "Do good things, and you'll be rewarded!"
My husbands cousins are the type. They donate to charity, and everything. Why? "God will reward us when we get to heaven." They don't even care if they're ACTUALLY helping people. They once said that it doesn't matter if you give money to someone who doesn't really need it--because God will reward you for your intentions.
Of course they're not really good people. They're some of the most ignorant bigoted people I know. They're also bullies who had posts deleted on facebook because of their bullying. All religion really does is convince assholes to be assholes who do good things once in a while because they were promised rewards for doing good things. (And as someone pointed out to me--this doesn't create good people, because they're doing it for a reward, not because they want to)
My husbands cousins are the type. They donate to charity, and everything. Why? "God will reward us when we get to heaven." They don't even care if they're ACTUALLY helping people. They once said that it doesn't matter if you give money to someone who doesn't really need it--because God will reward you for your intentions.
Of course they're not really good people. They're some of the most ignorant bigoted people I know. They're also bullies who had posts deleted on facebook because of their bullying. All religion really does is convince assholes to be assholes who do good things once in a while because they were promised rewards for doing good things. (And as someone pointed out to me--this doesn't create good people, because they're doing it for a reward, not because they want to)
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
