Originally posted by Aynat
If I were smart I would have passed by this thread but it was started by Shav, who has in the past been rather amusing...
Then I read howardgee's manure....
I think of the people who worship in the little downtown church I attend. The woman who has a run a weekly bible study at the prison for years, who has taken people into her home when they were rele ...[text shortened]... uls.....
Here I refrain from giving an exact opinion of certain people and their opinions....
The fact that some people do good while in association with a church
is of course a desireable thing. The only thing I would say is, why can't
there be organizations that do the same thing without referance to
some god or other? Like the fire department, they do their job without
quoting scriptures or having to present a bible at a food line.
It seems to me all the good deeds are done with an eye to making
their way to a non-existant heaven, by your good deeds shall ye be
rewarded in heaven. Why not by your good deeds you are recognized
by the human race as a genuine hero?