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kooka_lives - I can answer some of those questions for the enquiring
individual.
The largest international relief agency in the world today is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, initiated and funded by the personal wealth of an agnostic. Recently doubled in size by the philanthropy of an atheist. They now have over $30 billion in available funds for international relief, infrastructure and education. As for the other questions, they imply that all religious groups are involved in charitable work or have a charitable organization of some type that they are associated with. Where charitable work is the basis for a religious organization's tax relief status, a great number of them do absolutely nothing outside of their own religious communities. The Jehovah Witnesses for example do not do any form of charitable works officially for anyone but other members of their faith.
Then there is the consideration that you allude to in this post, aid in trade for religious indoctrination. The largest religious charity in the world is that of the Catholic Church, their focus is twofold. Inter-communal and third world, there is no disputing some of the positive things they do within their own communities and not just amongst their own faith members. There is also no disputing some of the ciritical aid they provide to some of the world's poorest regions but at the same time they are causing this world enormous problems. For example; they still insist on upholding their irrational ban on birth control in regions of the world where the simple proliferated use of condoms would save countless lives. Both in the effects of curbing the spread of aids and in reducing child birth rates in regions with unnaceptably high infant mortality rates. This does not even begin to consider the impact of usurping local faith systems by transplanting foreign faith systems.
Anyone who could ask those questions exposes themselves as someone who knows nothing about the subject.
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gomedome
on November 9, 2007 at 12:55 PM
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