RE: Atheists say something nice about religion & religious folks say nice atheism - go!
June 26, 2017 at 4:05 pm
Religious communities will often band together to do things collectively that is often more difficult to see in religiously apathetic communities. My own time as a PHD researcher what seems like years ago studying a community from the Sikh diaspora in my city. Came with little in the 50s to the UK, ended up owning half a constituency ward and getting EU funding for community projects and the such. The beliefs are/were wacky but the sense of community and collective was impossible not to be inspired by. Terrible when used for nefarious means, but when it came to organising to home a family who lost their house in an arson attack, or even just to feed hungry visitors in the Gurdwara, the community always came together. And it was their religious faith that underpinned it.