Google excludes churches from its non-for-profits discounts

Westyfield2 said:
Just did a quick google for "What good has Christianity done for the world":








While I would never claim that they've never done anything wrong and don't have a very spotted history, claiming that the followers of Jesus Christ have never done anything good is stupidity to the highest level.
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First off, what is your source for this?

Secondly you have made the very obvious mistake of assuming that humans would not have done these things without religion.


Christianity cannot stand up to critical discussion because of how deeply flawed it is. This debate shows that repeatedly.
 
It depends why and what exactly have they excluded. Does it include religious based charities.
The only way I could see it being a good thing, is if they class churches as only helping a few people and religious based charities are still included.

Generally against such stuff as has can be seen from this and other threads. It encourages Intolerence. It's stupid how people are so against intolerance in many aspects and people have fought for decades to get rid of it. Now the population is just switching from one intolerance to another and again a lot fo it is down to a massive lack of understanding.

Why do people always point out individuals, you do know individuals don't show anything. They are humans not religion. Most religious people don't follow the teachings. Also why not equally point out how many rich haven't given sod all to charity. Oh wait that doesn't support your flawed argument.
 
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Temi_D said:
oh look, another christianity bashing thread :rolleyes:
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Christianity has long since deserved to be bashed.

 
Good.

There is a church not far from me that must have cost at least $3 million to build. It doesn't even look like a church, it likes like a really fancy office building.
 
hurfdurf in "posting narrow minded crap again" shocker.

Do you think ridding the world of religion will really get rid of the problems you think it causes?

Hell no it won't. The problems you have posted are because of people corrupting systems for their own gain. If it's not religion, it'll be something else. Bashing it, banning it, etc. won't do a blind bit of difference.
 
Westyfield2 said:
Just did a quick google for "What good has Christianity done for the world":








While I would never claim that they've never done anything wrong and don't have a very spotted history, claiming that the followers of Jesus Christ have never done anything good is stupidity to the highest level.
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No one says that or they are incredibly stupid.
Someone could make a pretty good argument that some sects of Christianity is having a negative effect on society, especially the fundamentalist movement where parents take kids out of school to teach their kids a bunch of loon about how the world was created.
You don't really need religion to believe in crazy things though, if you took god out of the picture of creationism it will still look just as loony.
 
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I am glad that Google are refusing to subsidise one of the remaining cancers and parasites of the human race and society.

There was once a time when everyone believed in God and the church ruled. That time was called the Dark Ages.
 
Dj_Jestar said:
hurfdurf in "posting narrow minded crap again" shocker.

Do you think ridding the world of religion will really get rid of the problems you think it causes?

Hell no it won't. The problems you have posted are because of people corrupting systems for their own gain. If it's not religion, it'll be something else. Bashing it, banning it, etc. won't do a blind bit of difference.
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It would be a step forward to dealing with problems with facts, science and evidence, a step that, in my opinion, would help the world massively in comparison with the massive amounts of money that goes towards demonstrably flawed organisations.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Oh dear.
It wasn't a very dark time, lots of history was lost, which we have since discovered and the dark age wasn't very dark at all.
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You cannot dispute that it was an almost absolute reversal of an intellectually enlightened age.

Oxford English Dictionary (2 ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 1989. "a term sometimes applied to the period of the Middle Ages to mark the intellectual darkness characteristic of the time; often restricted to the early period of the Middle Ages, between the time of the fall of Rome and the appearance of vernacular written documents."
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But ok, the 'Middle Ages', then. It was still a cultural and intellectual reversal, and the progress of Europe was held back by the church.
 
hurfdurf said:
First few results don't stand up to any kind of critical scrutiny or are massively incomplete. Got any peer reviewed papers that have been published in respected journals, you know, something with some credibility?
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And have you got the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)
The term "Dark Ages" was originally intended to denote the entire period between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance; the term "Middle Ages" has a similar motivation, implying an intermediate period between Classical Antiquity and the Modern era. In the 19th century scholars began to recognize the accomplishments made during the period, thereby challenging the image of the Middle Ages as a time of darkness and decay.[5] The term is now never used by scholars to refer to the entire medieval period;[9] when used, it is generally restricted to the Early Middle Ages.[1]

You may want to nit be so intolerant, you are pretty much everything you hate about religion, total ignorance.
 
hurfdurf said:
It would be a step forward to dealing with problems with facts, science and evidence, a step that, in my opinion, would help the world massively in comparison with the massive amounts of money that goes towards demonstrably flawed organisations.
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Demonstrably flawed organisations are far from limited to religion. How about those governments that are killing their own people all the time?

No, it's just too damn cool to bash on religion because you think it makes you look intelligent.

Religion is harmless. People abusing positions of power is dangerous.

P.S. I'm atheist, before "that" argument starts.
 
AcidHell2 said:
You may want to nit be so intolerant, you are pretty much everything you hate about religion, total ignorance.
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We have to be intolerant of religion, just like I am intolerant of murderers and child rapists. Religion is a parasite on society. It is an evil and abuse of power masquerading as a kindness, and it glorifies ignorance dressed as 'faith'.

It generally works against anything we would consider intellectual or cultural progress.

Europe is undergoing another 'enlightenment' right now, as opposed to America. Europe's, especially the UK's, ongoing secularisation is a good thing.
 
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