This is why I hate people who hate "fucking christians"

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

It is you that is delusional. The churches have huge strings attached to their aid and they often make the situation much worse, for example the anti-condom push in Africa and Haiti. Sure, they will send first aid and blankets, but their bread and butter is extracted from the poor. The rich are quickly too well educated for their nonsense.

First off, I don't recall accusing anyone else of being delusional, but let that go.

Secondly, I'm not sure what the RCC's idiotic policy on condoms has to do with the typhoon under discussion.

You're correct that the bread an butter of the church comes from people who can ill afford it, but so what? This isn't really an argument against the charitable work that churches do, but points to the gullibility of believers. But it isn't really arguable that, in times of crisis, churches DO step in to help. The fact that they (sometimes, not always) pick an choose who they will help is utterly beside the point.

The reason for the disaster is that the Philippine people are too poor to have built well engineered structures that could withstand storms of this nature.

Huh. I was under the impression that the reason for the disaster was a typhoon with 200+ mile per hour winds.

Their churches drain monies that could be spent to provide "high wind" safe structures.

Actually, they don't. The Philippines has a secular government, which would be responsible for building the type of structures you mentions, and doesn't financially support the churches.

Their government opposes strict building codes because the religious conservatives push for "limited" government.

You may be right about this, I honestly don't know. I DO know, however, that liberals, not religious conservatives, control the majority of the Philippine government.

The churches never ever try to fix the causes for these disasters to prevent them, no, because fear of death is their biggest sales tool.

lol, what would you have had the churches do - drag the Philippine archipelago out of the typhoon belt? Come on, mate - it isn't the church's job to prevent natural disasters.

But that's as may be. My point was that 'hating fucking Xtians' because a priest goes round blessing corpses and implying that this is ALL the church is doing is just silly. Whatever the strings, whatever the reasons, it's a brute fact that churches do a tremendous amount of charitable work.

Boru