The reality of faith in the teachings of many christian religions..
By rdurusan
@rdurusan (624)
Philippines
February 2, 2008 6:16am CST
Faith is lacking considerably in many christian religions,particularly the catholic church and the so called daughter church which are former catholics themselves.If faith is really in their hearts,then the issue of money and donations must be out of their vocabulary.Sad to say,it is foremost in their minds.They are building huge cathedrals,magnificent churches, and many buildings in hectare by hectare in scope and yet they can't feed the hungry.They are asking for donations and help from rich and poor people alike to feed the hungry and to shelter homeless people.Their work is for the sake of showmanship,in other words they are the most plastic,hypocrite bunch of people in the world.They have banks,they have the money deliver to them every year from different catholic countries in the world,how can they not help by using a fraction of their wealth to feed the hungry,and give shelter to the homeless.Because they are not true christians,and christians who have money and the means use these means to help.If you will open your eyes by searching the truth in the bible,then you will realize that these institutions are not religions but business institutions.
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
2 Feb 08
Well thought out and written (my good Man) you have said that Right! Did Jesus or Mary Mother of God, build Huge expensive Churches?
Did the Christian Religion originate in a Hugely Ornate Building covered with Gold-leaf while the peasants were starving from lack of food? The Christian Religion is the biggest, Richest, oldest, and most corrupt Business in the History of the world!
@rsa101 (37968)
• Philippines
19 Feb 08
I would say nice point of view there. But then if you would look at different religions nowadays you would say they do have their large cathedrals mansion and palaces. Look at the Iglesia ni Kristo they do have their churches look magnificently large and the way they collect from their members are really strict and compulsory. Even those small Christian churches that are not that large they do have their means and they collect money for their members to survive. What do you propose should these churches do? I can see no good Christians that exist if that really happens. If you are targeting catholics only I would say its unfair you should also target the Moslems and Buddhist that also has their large mosque and Buddhist temples. I believe they also are collecting from their members to give to the poor. I do think for a group to be organized you should have a disciplined members and also contributing members to make your group move and spread.
@rsa101 (37968)
• Philippines
20 Feb 08
Well yes but what do you think is wrong with accumulating wealth? For as long as you don't use that wealth for anything wrong like killing and using people to accumulate more wealth. I think it is by nature that we people have the tendency to keep something for ourselves for our own survival. Giving them back to the needy is a personal choice already. I believe that even if all the churches would give their wealth to the people in dire need poverty would still exist for so many reasons that is out of our control.
@rdurusan (624)
• Philippines
22 Feb 08
rsa101 religion,especially the Christians are supposed to teach the teachings of Jesus Christ,and Jesus Christ live in simplicity and poverty.he taught his disciples not to strive for material riches,but strive for spiritual riches.There is nothing wrong being rich,if you acquire it through good means or legal means.If you acquire your riches through the members of your religion ,i think it is against the law of God and the law of man.Religion is taught by Jesus for spirituality not for acquiring riches,therefore you are acting against the teachings of Jesus and fooling your member if you enrich yourself through religion.
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@rdurusan (624)
• Philippines
20 Feb 08
What i am saying is this:if the mother church is rich,all the religions in particular,they can use their wealth for people who are in dire need of help,next is i am trying to motivate people to analyze their respective religions and if they found out that their religion is using them to accumulate wealth,then that is a sign that their religion is a false or a hoax religion.
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@headhunter525 (3548)
• India
10 Feb 08
You are saying that Christians are taking donations and help from rich and poor alike to feed the hungry and shelter the homeless people. But you are also asking how they cannot help using a fraction of their wealth to feed the hungry and give shelter to the homeless. I wonder what you are trying to say because your words seem to be contradictory.
Moreover, I think you are over generalising. Is there any institutions/religions which is serving the poor and needy more than what the Christian community is doing? I don't know of any. May be it's not there or may be I don't know. But if it's there you name it. I would like to know about it.
@rdurusan (624)
• Philippines
13 Feb 08
I am talking about the catholics in particular.You see at least here in the Philippines,building a church always involved donations from parishioners.While the upper class of priest are living luxuriously in their palace,the priest in the rural areas are trying to raise money for the renovation of the local church.The Vatican alone is self sufficient from centuries of donations from catholic countries,still we are sending money to the Vatican.For what is that money,while the local nuns or priest are running institution to feed the hungry and to give shelter to the homeless,they are begging for donations to run these institutions.What is the sense of helping the poor,when you yourself is poor and your mother church is raking the money from poor catholic countries.You see the Vatican has its own bank,in the Philippines the local church has its own bank,and many prestigious schools and expensive are owned by different catholic order,so what is the sense,for publicity sake.All third word countries that are catholics are experiencing the Philippines dillema.
