http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11939658
Girls from an Anglican high school in New Zealand went streaking on motorbikes to celebrate the end of the school year. One pair ran over a boy and injured his leg. The Christian girls got back on their bike, gave him a one-fingered salute, and left him bleeding in the grass. Jesus would have been proud.
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I feel so gypped. They said there was mature content and then they covered up all the mature content! I'd like to file a complaint.
Well, religion is about control, not about morality.
@ZeffD: "religion is about control"
Those girls were really in control. Without the benefit of their religious training, those girls might have been tempted to stop and help the injured victim of their prank.
Well that kind of behavior is the exception not the norm here!!! I know of a lot of school aged children who are good kids. they volunteer they help raise money by all sought of projects. Do you get something satisfying in your nature by mentioning these shortcomings of the students? What are you trying to prove here? We all know that man kind is a sinner and doesn`t know GOD or want to do what he says in the bible .they may wear the uniform but there heart is far from the Lord.
@Agnostic Believer: "What are you trying to prove here?"
That Christians in general, and Christian educators in particular, are on average the greatest hypocrites in the history of humanity. The immorality in this story isn't the fact that the girls were riding around naked. It's the fact that they injured a boy and left him bleeding without showing any care or compassion or taking responsibility for their own actions.
"they may wear the uniform but there heart is far from the Lord."
No. They weren't wearing the uniform.
Prove? Nothing. Illustrate? Hypocrisy.
you can`t paint the whole Christianity with the stroke of one brush!!!! There is good or bad, When am I going to hear you say something good about the Christian faith? Or are you overwhelming biased in your approach here.
@Agnostic Believer: "When am I going to hear you say something good about the Christian faith?"
When it has been consigned to the trashcan of history with all the other superstitions, and when its corrupting and limiting influence has finally been eliminated from the life of humanity.
@AB: The problem here is that you're equating christianity with humanitarian effort. You're saying that because of god, people do great things for other people. The problem is that because of god people also do many more horrible things to people. Therefore god isn't a net benefit to humanity in this simple logical progression.
Likewise, you indicate that only because of christians are these humanitarian efforts available, but that's just ridiculous. Not only are there other religious groups involved in humanitarian efforts, there are also secular agencies involved.
As an educated guess, I would posit that there are certain types of people who place humanitarian aid at the top of their priority list. And regardless of their faith or non-faith they'd be out helping people. We don't need god or christians to tell us it's a good idea to be kind to your fellow human beings, and your argument that without christianity all the good would drain from society is patently absurd.
Say something good: Okay, some christians do good in spite of their religious beliefs
how about all the good that Christianity does Algebe? All the baptisms, weddings, funeral masses, hospital visits, schools being built people being housed especially low income housing directed towards the poor and less affluent. How about the soup kitchen I once volunteered in? Please give the credit where the credit is due!!!! Where would we be if you took Christianity out completely from the social fabric?
@Agnostic Believer: "Where would we be if you took Christianity out completely from the social fabric?"
Assuming that all the other varieties of god-insanity were also gone, we'd be a happier, healthier, longer-lived species. We'd have made amazing advances in every field of knowledge centuries earlier. We'd have learned to live together more harmoniously with greater respect. We'd have found solutions for disease, poverty, hunger, and war. And we'd be more focused on what makes us all the same rather than what makes us different.
But that's just my opinion.
Mine too! Well said!
You have some damn good opinions, Algebe.
How about these things we can thank christians and christianity for: genocide, rape, mass murder, witch hunts, torture, forced conversion, theft, child rape, the crusades, homophobia, sexism, and racism just to name a few
Let's see the good that christianity has done.
Hmm... Genocide for more than half of the world. In Europe alone, coerced conversion with the pain of death hanging over your head. Slavery! Rape, child molestation, theft of property!
But let's look at they also do. Provide food for the needy if you give your life over to them. Go to poor countries to help the poor, if you give your life over to them.
In every case of so-called charity, christians demand conversion and obedience to receive that charity!
Much of my extended family are missionaries. While I know that some of what they do involves preaching and teaching, I know that much of it is simple service. They aren't checking "christian ID" at the door before serving people food or building water purification installations, so I don't think your characterization of demanding conversion before providing aid is a fair one. At least in the case of missionaries I know.
Are there specific cases you know of in current missionary organizations that do this? I've heard of muslims doing this in our time. But christians?
in America the poor often get the sandwich after sitting through the sermon
@Agnostic Believer: "When am I going to hear you say something good about the Christian faith?
At the moment the behavior of its adherents is better than the behavior of the adherents to Islam although I must add the disclaimer that it wasn't always so.....