RE: Are Nonreligious Organizations Able to Provide the Same Services as Churches?
March 5, 2015 at 11:36 am
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2015 at 11:41 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You think the government only provides or caters to the poor? I don;t know, I think that you might be looking at a narrow range of services provided as juxtaposed against services you feel that churches provide. Name a service provided by a church, I'll show you the myriad ways our government provides that same service in a variety of ways and with a crippling amount of effort and resources compared to whatever coin a church might throw at the same.
As to social benefits...who builds and maintains community centers, libraries, public parks (or the roads to get to them all....or to get to the churches...).........? This "services rendered" business as a boon for religious organizations is the close cousin of the "religious charities" line of thinking. The truth, plainly, is that secular organizations provide more -of everything- offered by a church (be it service or resource) than churches would even be capable of...and have for some time, often enough, the funds used by religious organizations to offer this or that resource actually came from our secular government or is administered by our secular government in the first place. We (as in we the people) subsidize their services while providing greater and wider services simultaneously through many other channels.
As to social benefits...who builds and maintains community centers, libraries, public parks (or the roads to get to them all....or to get to the churches...).........? This "services rendered" business as a boon for religious organizations is the close cousin of the "religious charities" line of thinking. The truth, plainly, is that secular organizations provide more -of everything- offered by a church (be it service or resource) than churches would even be capable of...and have for some time, often enough, the funds used by religious organizations to offer this or that resource actually came from our secular government or is administered by our secular government in the first place. We (as in we the people) subsidize their services while providing greater and wider services simultaneously through many other channels.
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