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entwine413@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoYou need to brush up on your history then. The church’s history is largely violently forcing others to convert and using the Bible to persecute those they don’t like.
Comment on Most American headline
entwine413@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoYou need to brush up on your history then. The church’s history is largely violently forcing others to convert and using the Bible to persecute those they don’t like.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That is entirely unrelated to the fact that most Christian communities did in fact try to clothe, feed and tend those that needed it. Most humans will try to ease the suffering of those they know in their communities if they can because most aren’t so cold hearted
Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
I dont understand why your down voted.
Christian institutions == christian followers.
a few hundred years ago homeless people and veteran carried tokens that enabled them to be given free food and help at churches.
Paster Damian died of leprosy after 11 years of helping others with the sickness, tending their wounds, sharing food and digging graves. He kept doing so while he was sick.
The catholic church as an institution absolutely is evil but that does not automatically make believers or individual priests so.
History is Littered with proof of this. Science denying is not the answer to religious bigotry.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The fact is for most of history you wouldnt have left your county so you actually were more inclined to be closer with people you might not have loved because of expediency. You aren’t going to chow down on seconds if you know your neighbor is starving unless you are a psychopath and most humans aren’t.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
After all the murder and violent colonialism, kind of makes it a moot point, eh?
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No, because the point that all the bigots are missing is that religious people are generally no different than other people. If you see a starving kid you aren’t going tosit in front of them chowing down. You will, presuming you aren’t on the ASPD spectrum or starving yourself, going to feed that kid.
Most humans did this . Most humans do this. You have to raise them to believe helping others is wrong and that enters Protestant Christianity through Calvinism.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So, by your own logic, religion is not required to help people, so why does that forgive Christianity for its holy wars and violent crusades?
entwine413@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Your statements don’t align with reality, which isn’t surprising because religion doesn’t align with reality.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Are you so prejudiced that ypu think most people would not give food to their neighbors if they were starving? Are the people around you that horrible?
entwine413@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I’m talking about Christians, not most people.