For example, the Church was A hub for Ferguson protesters, where as Amnesty International simply observed for a day or two and left. Are you really going to compare the efficacy of both of those two and say the impact is similar?
You're being straight up dishonest but I can't pretend I expected anything different. On realizing that you couldn't back up your original claim you've tried to switch up the argument. This is what you said,As I stated, the Church no longer is THE center for things like learning, literacy, commissioning art, etc but that does not delegitimize its utility, which is what the argument is about.
You made specific claims about the way in which atheists live their lives. I asked for evidence of this and you've done nothing but prevaricate.many people use it as a means to scrap any responsibility to their communities and eschew social norms. Many take on nihilistic approaches to life and this world and shun any form of altruism.
"Beholden to" does not relate to dependence. They have greater means by which to hold them accountable.People in the developed world are often even more dependent on institutions and social constructs![]()
Observations about how people act in social situations are not valid social observations? Interesting.Surely you realize social science studies are not legitimate measures of how people actually act in the real world?
Dude you are the worst bad faith arguer I've ever encountered. Read the links, these aren't survey's. I'm not going to hold your hand. Either you're genuinely curious about this and you'll read at least the abstracts or you're just arguing to argue.There is a different between saying YES you will help the disabled on a piece of paper and actually doing the work involved. You should be able to point to examples to substantiate your data, correct?
Do you understand nuance? These organisations aren't trying to do the same thing so what kind of objective conclusion can you come to?Do you understand nuance? How many of these are as effective as the Church in any given thing? How many people have these organizations mobilized? Instead of copy and pasting a list can you break down numbers for me so we can look at this objectively?
Stop playing dumb you know there are plenty of such charities. You can physically do community work without going through the church as many people already do. Your argument was that atheists are less likely to do so and so far you've provided no evidence to back that up. In short, you are full of shyt.And most of these organizations deal with poverty outreach, where are the orgs dealing with the arts, music, community events and town halls
Are you going to argue that me donating 10 dollars to any of these charities that will probably be siphoned off by a crook is as effective as physically doing community work through the church![]()

The none religious people are always talking about religion
We get it, you don't believe in God![]()

The main reason I fell back from it was that I realized it's nearly impossible (and flat out impossible in my personal case) to live a completely proactive lifestyle if you think a man in the sky is going to help you out when shyt gets real. I grew tired of asking "Why me?" When terrible things continued to happen in my life. And now I take things for what they are and work on solutions. You'll always live a reactive lifestyle as long as you believe in God. I just get things done, and whatever mishaps occur along the way, I chalk it up to just my life taking its course![]()

man you just stole that from twin peaks

Sell that invisible product and get the jet brehs.The main reason I fell back from it was that I realized it's nearly impossible (and flat out impossible in my personal case) to live a completely proactive lifestyle if you think a man in the sky is going to help you out when shyt gets real. I grew tired of asking "Why me?" When terrible things continued to happen in my life. And now I take things for what they are and work on solutions. You'll always live a reactive lifestyle as long as you believe in God. I just get things done, and whatever mishaps occur along the way, I chalk it up to just my life taking its course![]()
Indians have a long history of causing division among blacks^^


Emphatically. I too learned this ledge-knowing from that Wu Tang song. Let me drop some gems and jew-L's for the people.
Cesare Borgia was an Italian politician born in 1498. His CAC ass looked like this:
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CACs.
Now here's the oldest icon of Jesus from Egypt. It's from the 6th century and it's in an Egyptian monastery.
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Straight hair, light skin, CAC nose, CAC-like facial hair, and it was painted hundreds of years before Cesare Bor.......
Hold on, brehs. Hold on. Wu Tang wouldn't spit nonsense.
You see, the Borgias obviously had a time machine. Yeah. A time machine. They went back in time almost a thousand years and made an Egyptian Christian paint this Jesus.
Don't research Wu Tang lyrics to find out of they're true.
Don't research early Christianity.
Just donate to Dr. Umar and don't ask any questions.