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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

The point, tazzy, is that charities are not a function solely of religion.

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ORIGINAL: FullCircle

Money is money no more or less will exist (in the whole economic system) than before, people will spend on projects as their morality tells them and people will set up such projects on their own. For every charity set up by a religious organisation I bet you could easily find one set up by a non religious organisation or individual, if your tried?

Even with the ones set up with religious funding you have to ask yourself if the organiser is actually religious or if they just know that religion is taking a whole heap of money out of the economic system in the name of good causes and they could tap into that? Much like lottery funding, how many charity organisers believe in the lottery?

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ORIGINAL: Darcyandthedark

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

eventually, Master... but how long... and which ones.. and who would organize?

Now see, I have faith - in PEOPLE.  If religion closed their doors then the people would think with their feet and just organise the charities elsewhere.  I find it really sad that some people have such little faith in human nature to continue.
 
And those that only do the chariety thing because of their religion?  That's just no big loss anyway.
 
 
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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf

From the responses I have seen so far, I take it that the word "religion" actually means the Abrahmic and/or the Judea-Christian religions?

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everyone seems to be so concerned about religion taking over that they cannot see the good it does in their own communities.

religion isnt bad... whats bad are the people who do bad things in the name of religion.