(November 17, 2013 at 3:49 am)Drich Wrote:(November 17, 2013 at 12:06 am)Minimalist Wrote: Stupid, silly, superstitious bastards.
http://news.yahoo.com/church-services-he...47069.html
These assholes will live in cardboard boxes while the fucking church gets rebuilt!
Rebuilt by the guys living in those boxes. Why? Because they are smart enough to know that aid and distribution of food water and help/helpers often focuses around community centers like idk A FRIGGEN CHURCH! You'd know this if you'd ever work in a disaster relief effort.
Good call arm chair disaster relief worker!
The main thrust of this is people prioritizing collective delusion over personal well being(including collective well being). The manner in which relief and rebuilding would occur would improve if there was a humanistic, rather than religious, belief underpinning the populace. Resources diverted for church use and building, for instance...also able bodies doing more than just crossing themselves, etc. Without this interference, people would be more apt to devote time to each other and notsome invisible distraction.
Drich- Building hurricane resistant shelters for future use could not only serve as a staging area, but help preserve lives next typhoon go round. Better than 'up your ass with stained glass' with a church. (Seriously, though...you're arguing a rebuilt churches' usefulness that would take weeks/months to build?) What a crap rationale. This isn't helpful for right now.
Again, I get that christians there likely want their jesus security blanket. But if they only shelved the mythology, I can see how it could help put focus where it's more pressingly needed. My condolences to them all, regardless of ideological differences.
