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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] <blockquote>"Even the government? It steals money from productive people, then gives it to others with no regard to whether they deserve it or not."</blockquote> Well, if they don't deserve it ("deserve" meaning what Rob just said, which sounds reasonable), it wouldn't really be charity, would it? Just because something is [i]called[/i] "charity", that doesn't make it so. <blockquote>[i]"Just because people do good things in the name of religion, that doesn't make the religion itself good."[/i] "It does if they wouldn't be doing the good deed without the religion. Don't you realize that all semblance of morality would have disintegrated long ago without religion?"</blockquote> As I already pointed out, but you apparently missed, that's precisely why religion is [i]bad[/i] in this situation. It teaches people that the only reason to be nice to each other is because such-and-such deity says so, and will kick your ass if you don't. People need to learn that morality comes from the common good, not some supernatural overlord. But religion has totally screwed that up. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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