Posted by: Eutab4 January 7, 2013
Religion: What should it contribute?
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 Freedom, out of all your propositions of need of religion due to the genetic lack of compassion, love etc is pretty thought-worthy. I have not been convinced by your logic why Christianity is good because you met very good Christians, they killed less people than others, or they give loads of money to needy slums in Nepal or Tsunami-stricken Philipinos. J
I still persist that no. of killings or dollar donated has not always to do whole lot with the religious belief. If you try to tell me that the donation money is all due to the Looooooooove of rich nations towards the humanity, I must say that you are politically naïve. I am not saying all American help to Nepal is to make sure that Nepal keeps buying American ammos, ok? There are some real help also. But you really cannot use these examples actually to compare the religions.  
I hate to sound like donations also can be interpreted as selfish acts, but even though very holy people see(k) some kind of return (more in Platonic sense). I recall when reporters asked Michael Bloomberg if his kids would be unhappy with him after he made a huuuuge donations of his wealth to the charities in 2010(?), he said something like this…”If I love my kids and want their well-being, I cannot just make them well off while their surround is worse off..that’s why this action still shows my affection to my kids not ” (paraphrased of course). I am using this example to ask you all to ponder on how much connection we can actually derive in lofty deeds of individuals (nations) and religions.
We all have ‘that’ part inside us…’that’ being the ‘Godly essence’ or humane (as atheist would call which is fine) element among many many other elements. Some are suppressed more others are expressed to a varying degree within cross-section of population. If I am limbless and poor person in wheelchair and my neighbor’s house is burnt down. You cannot call my prayers and thoughts less holy, because I could not buy him refrigerator or put a week worth of labor. You will be wrong. 
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