you might be onto something here, perhaps the so-called refugee crisis is a deliberately engineered trojan horse
guess what mate, there are about 1.5 billion muslims in the world and I really don't know what to say to you if you're prepared to fear and condemn all of them for the actions of a handful - they're called extremists for a reason. Thousands and thousands of refugees are fleeing the same evil that shot up Paris yesterday and that ought to tell you more than anything that this is a global issue and that you can't just turn them around and say **** off its your problem.
Muslim kills non Muslim - Extreme left wing nutter blames Crusades.
you might be onto something here, perhaps the so-called refugee crisis is a deliberately engineered trojan horse
guess what mate, there are about 1.5 billion muslims in the world and I really don't know what to say to you if you're prepared to fear and condemn all of them for the actions of a handful - they're called extremists for a reason. Thousands and thousands of refugees are fleeing the same evil that shot up Paris yesterday and that ought to tell you more than anything that this is a global issue and that you can't just turn them around and say **** off its your problem.
Yeah but you can do all that without religion. i can name just as many organisations that do good for society that have nothing to do with religion, flying doctor, canteen, red cross, rspca and many more.
this was an atrocious act, no doubt, but the number of human lives lost to terror to date would be dwarfed by a comparison against the other wonderful "achievements" of the human race throughout history. You don't fight hate with more hate, you don't fight evil with more evil. The situation in the middle east is INCREDIBLY complex and misunderstood (and ****ed up) and we Australian's can't be so short-sighted to think we can shut ourselves out and live in isolation.
I perhaps didn't express it correctly, do religions provide society with anything positive that can't be done by non religious people? Is there any point to religions?
That's not what I'm trying to do at all.
As I said before the I didn't pose the question as if hoped and I countered his interpretation to my question.
I appreciate the reply and I think you sort of get where I'm coming from, I understand they do a lot of good in the community but my point is how else do they contribute to society because people who aren't religious can do the same work or is it just that you're more likely to be religious if your doing something good in the community.There are a lot of criticisms that can be reasonably made, maybe even legitimately made against religion but their work in the community isn't one of them.
Leaving aside any question of gods, celestial transcension etc. What they also preach is an awful lot of being nice a person and helping others. If you want to please God, be very nice, and helpful to others. That's not a bad thing is it?
I guarantee there will be a lot more jebovah witnesses, Lutherans, Jews, Mormons, Catholics, Protestants and Muslims volunteering in soup kitchens than smug assholes like you and me, who spend our time arguing over the Internet.
Then you have the radical, marginal elements who like killing and preventing footy on good Friday, these fundamental elements should be stopped
