To Skeptics Who Believe In Evolution: Where Will Your So Called ‘Science’ Be Then? [Spirituality & Religion]

@Entwistle
Many are not really Christian! I have dedicated my life to help people and go wherever God wants me to go to help! I have been a Red Cross help in fires and yesterday there was 137 new fires in California! God wants us to help where we can! I try to help!

@Entwistle That's my experience too. They sometimes appear to be benevolent but only when they're trying to gain converts or want your money.

@NortiusMaximus
Some do but some volunteer for [b]free[/b]!

@Carazaa Would you volunteer and do those things if you weren't a Christian?

@Entwistle Probably not!

@Entwistle Your question is irrelevant! You originally said Christians are selfish! I am not selfish so therefor your premise is wrong! I am more caring because I am a Christian!

@Carazaa I said Christians on the whole..I never said all Christians. Read what people write for God's sake!

@Entwistle Oh, by no means all, Entwhistle!

Yes, religion of all persuasions offers ready-made scapegoats (usually poor old God or some conveniently-quoted prophet) for ducking personal responsibility for mis-treating other people. Yes, there are callous sects and cults that put dogma before humanity.

Yet there are plenty of good and bad religious people just as there are plenty of good and bad people who are not religious.

And citing the OP, many religious people accept science and some are scientists too - though others rather amusingly miss the irony of their using the Internet from (presumably) the comfort of a decent home with all mod. cons., to denigrate science, or at least that which dares question their chosen dogma!

A great many benefactors are encouraged to be so by their faith, and some of the wisest and most benevolent 19C employers, in my country at least, were members of the Society of Friends (the "Quakers").

Carazaa refers to her volunteering with the Red Cross. Islamic countries have a similar organisation, the Red Crescent, and I believe the two often co-operate.

I don't know if it has overseas branches, but here in the UK the Salvation Army is not only a charity that helps mainly homeless people and in disaster relief, but also a Christian church of its own.

Even without these examples, there are many people of all religious persuasions who are good in their own way, or at least certainly not selfish or scrounging. Those weaknesses are of human beings, not ancient scriptural doctrines.


Me? I am not religious though some of my friends are, and two or three are even ordained in the Anglican Church; but I try to be good to others!

@ArishMell But when someone is truly born again, and God, the Holy Spirit comes into our heart then people are changed forever! Then we see God how he is loving, ourselves as hopeless sinners, and we want to please God and we love people!

@Carazaa Why do you want to please God?

@Carazaa So the only reason you volunteer is to get points to go to heaven. If there was no heaven you wouldn't care about your fellow human beings? You wouldn't feel the compassion in your heart to help you fellow man? This is just self-interest, you are only being good in order to avoid hell and achieve heaven.

@Entwistle Yep....nothing more dangerous than "BLIND faith!"

@Entwistle I want to please God because He has feelings! He is hurting so much when we hurt people and all he wants is for us to be loving and take good care of this world, and not be mean! It’s kind of the same feeling as I had my own Dad, I wanted to make him happy and proud of me! My Dad was so kind to everyone and went beyond for people! Same as God!

@JimboSaturn When a person is saved God puts love in our hearts for everyone!

@SpiritualMan Read JaneTVs message below..

@SpiritualMan Thats why I start every day with 3 chapters of bible reading and a sermon on You-tube, and end the day with devotion! I want to be in Gods will for me!

@ArishMell horseshit

@SpiritualMan Can you prove anything without quoting the Bible? If God is real it would be self evident and its logic could exist without the aid of scripture.

@SpiritualMan What comment are you trying to answer, I'm confused.