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You need to brush up on your history then. The church's history is largely violently forcing others to convert and using the Bible to persecute those they don't like.
That is entirely unrelated to the fact that most Christian communities did in fact try to clothe, feed and tend those that needed it. Most humans will try to ease the suffering of those they know in their communities if they can because most aren’t so cold hearted
I dont understand why your down voted.
Christian institutions = \ = christian followers.
a few hundred years ago homeless people and veteran carried tokens that enabled them to be given free food and help at churches.
Paster Damian died of leprosy after 11 years of helping others with the sickness, tending their wounds, sharing food and digging graves. He kept doing so while he was sick.
The catholic church as an institution absolutely is evil but that does not automatically make believers or individual priests so.
History is Littered with proof of this. Science denying is not the answer to religious bigotry.
The fact is for most of history you wouldnt have left your county so you actually were more inclined to be closer with people you might not have loved because of expediency. You aren’t going to chow down on seconds if you know your neighbor is starving unless you are a psychopath and most humans aren’t.
No, because the point that all the bigots are missing is that religious people are generally no different than other people. If you see a starving kid you aren't going tosit in front of them chowing down. You will, presuming you aren't on the ASPD spectrum or starving yourself, feed that kid.
Most humans did this . Most humans do this. You have to raise them to believe helping others is wrong and that enters Protestant Christianity through Calvinism.
No, you have just completely misinterpreted my comment a second time
No, I know what I wrote. Im not sure why or how you could think otherwise.
We should stop here.
Your statements don't align with reality, which isn't surprising because religion doesn't align with reality.
Are you so prejudiced that ypu think most people would not give food to their neighbors if they were starving? Are the people around you that horrible?
I'm talking about Christians, not most people.
So then yes you are either that bigoted or the people around you are abnormally indescent. Most people won't let people they kind of know starve. It has nothing to do with faith. The evangelicals who buy into the prosperity gospel do this because of the aforementioned Calvinism.
Not at all. I'm not saying there's not good Christians; I'm saying they're the minority and aren't representative of the religion as a whole.
People have been using religion as a justification for hate, pain, and misery since religion was invented, and Christianity isn't any different. I'm not sure why you think this is a recent change.
Plus, only helping people you know or kinda know doesn't make you a good Christian. The majority of people, Christian or not, have no problem ignoring the needy if helping them would inconvenience them in any way.
So yes you are that bigoted. That's something for you to work on.