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Originally Posted by highthief
It has also been at the core of most charitable endeavours over the last couple thousand years or so. Faith maintains billions of people around the world faced with crushing circumstances.
Like anything so large and complex, there is good and bad to organized religion - it is simplistic to think it is all bad or all good.
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The way I see it, religious charity is spiritual blackmail. They will offer you help, but you must convert to their way of thinking. Even when devoutly religious, I questioned this, as I felt that as a good Christian and good Catholic, I was obliged to help others in need regardless of who they were.