"Are you saying that no good comes out of religious charity? A bowl of soup in exchange for a sermon is a bad deed?"
I feel that anything the church does has ulterior motives behind them.The main Christian churches function is to evangelize the world for Christ. Doing charitable deeds is a small sacrifice in the long run as long as it gains another convert who they may help with a job and housing so that he can turn around and put it all right back in the churches coffers.
I think that any good deed not done out of the kindness and goodness of ones heart is nothing but hypocrisy.In 1989 I was once homeless and I saw a flier inviting everyone to this local church for Thanksgiving dinner.I attended that function and although I was not a Christian at the time I still believed in the God of the bible.That day the preacher preached on for about 3 hours and all the homeless guys including myself were grumbling "when are they going to serve the food".When you are hungry you shouldn't have to sit through a three hour sermon just to get a meal.
I feel that anything the church does has ulterior motives behind them.The main Christian churches function is to evangelize the world for Christ. Doing charitable deeds is a small sacrifice in the long run as long as it gains another convert who they may help with a job and housing so that he can turn around and put it all right back in the churches coffers.
I think that any good deed not done out of the kindness and goodness of ones heart is nothing but hypocrisy.In 1989 I was once homeless and I saw a flier inviting everyone to this local church for Thanksgiving dinner.I attended that function and although I was not a Christian at the time I still believed in the God of the bible.That day the preacher preached on for about 3 hours and all the homeless guys including myself were grumbling "when are they going to serve the food".When you are hungry you shouldn't have to sit through a three hour sermon just to get a meal.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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