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Taq
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Message 52 of 71 (551404)
03-22-2010 4:40 PM
Reply to: Message 30 by Den
03-22-2010 11:37 AM


I mean every person that the athiest movement convinces to leave religion, makes one less person donating their time and money towards the charitable initiatives of the church, = less for charity.
Proselytizing does not help anyone. If you spent as much money on mosquito netting as christians do on missions based literature we could save millions of children from malarial disease.
Lets assume that all the people who leave the church commit the same donations to secular charities instead(unlikely, but a percentage probably would), what about the lost volunteers?
Just imagine the number of Salvation Army volunteers we would lose if people stopped believing in Santa Claus.

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Message 69 of 71 (551601)
03-23-2010 10:19 AM
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03-23-2010 4:16 AM


In fact there are many secular charities exposed as fraudulent regularly or with rediculous operating costs, some as much as 95% used up on admin expenses. Secular charities are regularly exposed as being wasteful. I watched one documentary which exposed Unicef in Vietnam, charity staff living in resort style luxury and multi million dollar car fleets sitting idle while homeless single mothers where found begging on the same street.
No secular group or charity has anything approaching the war chest found in the Vatican.

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