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It was just my humanness. I fully believe we are all born empathetic. Most of us stay that way at least to a degree. We're a social species. We're deep-down aware that we need numbers and a variety of talents in order to thrive. So we're really really really empathetic. That makes us want to help. We can be any religion or no religion, MOST of us have our trigger points where we just can't watch someone suffer or do without so we just go on in there and try to help. And I'll bet most of us have had someone feel that way about us too.
I read all the time about people just pitching in to help...help each other, help animals...I think we're ALL this way when we don't let experiences or fears get in the way...it's our natural bent. It's our default.
I don't believe that takes away from the sweetness of the act of giving, indeed I think it's one of the most poignant things about being a human being. <3
Because, if he got better, there would be no brownie points for religion. Unless you popped a note in his mailbox "I am praying for you to get better. So if you do, don't fail to think about coming to Church."
Recently, a Christian pastor took his neighbor to the doctor. The neighbor had to have a knee replacement, so he took him in for surgery, saw him through surgery, and picked him up the next day. He then took him back to the hospital (30 miles each way) twice weekly for the next 6 weeks for physical therapy.
And no, the neighbor does not attend his church. Nor did he get paid for it.
Couldn't god fix the believers knee if the xian pastor prayed or laid hand on the believers knee viz?
Wouldn't that be a better story? Pastor take neighbor to his church and god replaces knee with new one.
Recently, a Christian pastor took his neighbor to the doctor. The neighbor had to have a knee replacement, so he took him in for surgery, saw him through surgery, and picked him up the next day. He then took him back to the hospital (30 miles each way) twice weekly for the next 6 weeks for physical therapy.
And no, the neighbor does not attend his church. Nor did he get paid for it.
I thought this was a thread about Vizio's good deeds...At least that's the way I read the header...
Since whatever tactic Vizza was trying to pull in listing all the times he helped old ladies across the road for Jesus is doing nothing to prop up the crumbling edifice eglise, we might as well talk about something else.
Proof that Christian pastors are wealthy/privileged enough to contribute services to others for free.
He's partly doing it for more selfish reasons, I promise. He's "investing" in this person. The same way that a church pastor hires a bus to go through the neighborhood to pick up children and take them to vacation Bible school in the summer.
He also thinks that he is building up treasures in heaven for himself by doing good deeds in the name of his god. At least secular charities don't have this illusion.
These kind of stories are depressing because I know people who do these kinds of things and think of it in this way. It leaves a bad taste in mouth.
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I fully believe we are all born empathetic. Most of us stay that way at least to a degree. We're a social species. We're deep-down aware that we need numbers and a variety of talents in order to thrive. So we're really really really empathetic. That makes us want to help. We can be any religion or no religion, MOST of us have our trigger points where we just can't watch someone suffer or do without so we just go on in there and try to help. And I'll bet most of us have had someone feel that way about us too.
