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RealityLicks -> RE: Einstein and G*d (5/15/2008 1:25:32 AM)
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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver
I think your thinking is muddled. Your implication that religion gives impetus to acts of social justice and that other none religious belief systems don't, doesn't stand up to a modicum of examination. It is religion that has for centuries stifled social justice and humanitarians and atheists that fought for social justice. It is only since religion has been in decline that religion has concerned itself with social justice, before it was more interested in saving souls and was largely socially conservative and absolutely corrupt.
Reading your reply perhaps its you who's muddled. I actually haven't said that social justice or acts of charity emanate solely from faith groups, I've simply pointed out that they do a great deal of that work. I followed by saying that as a teenager, I had other uses for my spare time than helping those less well-off than me until I benefitted from the religious types showing me that side.
We are not in a position to retroactively punish the medieaval church of power and privilege, only to affect the issues of our day.
Since you concede that religionists are nowadays primarily about charity work, why object to whatever good they can contribute? In any case, a belief in god doesn't necessitate membership of any organised faith group, which does make the usual arguments about "wars in the name of religion" etc look a little sophomoric.
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