May God show you the way.

[Rhizomorph13]

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When will religious people, particularly Christians, realise that no prayer will provide housing and food?

They won't. It is the natural result of believing in magical solutions.

Right, that explains the complete lack of Christian charities. Oh, wait...

Yeah, as you hold a bible over starving children, forcing them to convert or starve. Yeah I'd convert too if it meant getting some fuckin food and shelter. And there are plenty of secular charities all over the world, so dont pretend your religion has the market on helping people. They dont hold food as a weapon to convert, its sickening and you should be ashamed that you think religion is the only thing that causes people to do good. To me, people who do that have no sense of morality because they have to have a reason to do good, or be scared into doing good. The people who do good without supernatural hogwash are the real heroes, and yes even religious people who help without converting are helping too, just in a less positive way for mankind. Cut the superfluous religious nonsense and you have my endorsement for helping starving and sick kids. But since you feel the need to be pretentious about your religion, I wont support any charity that holds basic needs hostage for their religion.

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You have a truely twisted way of looking at things. The charities set up by church are peopled by believers who feel a genuine motivation to help others. Their preaching is another example of their genuine motivation to help others. They think without God you will go to hell. The Christians that do not proselytize are the ones who are the hypocrites (Or well behaved theists on this board).

That being said, there is some truth to what Min puts forth. The missions really are the marketing arm of the church, but only mixed in with a large motivation to help others. It would be better if they were secular, because then there wouldn't be the apparent conflict of interest.