Maybe controversial - Religion IS bad, but.....

[Fake Messiah]

@ Fake Messiah

True also, however still not convinced there are more of them.

Not to be petty but they are in the news from time to time for having problems like any other organization.

Just the contrary. Problems with religious organizations is that they use most of the money to build castles, jets, jewelry, cars etc. Like, have you seen the Vatican lately? How many starving people could be saved by selling the treasures and castles there?

Secular programs are the biggest charities - like have you heard of food stamps, social security, medicare - which come from people paying taxes. But guess who is not paying taxes?

So, on top of religious organizations not paying taxes to help impoverished, they also get money from the government for charity work (like Catholic church gets $800 million every year) so one really wonders why they don't pay taxes.



The bottom line is that you didn't get a free meal from a Christian organization because you paid for it by footing the tax money that they refuse to pay, and you paid for it when the Church gets millions of dollars from taxpayers (your money).