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No faith, just good works
Well this makes me feel appreciated, apparently my lack of faith makes it impossible for me to contribute to society.
Speaking at a conference of Traidcraft, the Christian-based fair trade organisation, Mr Timms said: There is positive impact when people of faith are involved in the lives of their community, because these people bring valuable qualities in their service which are rare elsewhere and they are qualities modern Britain urgently needs.
He also said that political and social activism, rooted in faith, has a vital role to play in shaping modern Britain. He told delegates at the conference that they represented an outstanding example of how effective and influential faith-based organisations could be.
Timms, who boasts on his website that he is heavily involved in the Christian Socialist Movement, added: In Government we recognise, increasingly, that faith communities are sustaining families, building cohesion, reaching the disadvantaged, communicating positive values the length and breadth of Britain. And we need much more of that, not less. (emphasis mine)
Because you see, those atheists are cold, cold, unfeeling bastards who don’t give a damn about anyone but themselves. Hell, we’re barely human. Sure, I may have worked directly for a charity for a few years and donated and assisted in a smaller way for a number more, but that doesn’t count you see: I need to believe in God to help people.
I’d certainly wouldn’t be petty enough to point out to Mr Timms that as for ‘reaching the disadvantage’, atheist doctors have a better track record. Or that the hall-mark of religious run charity isn’t so much helping the needy as helping the needy who are not living in sin. I can completely understand this, gay people should obviously be denied soup at soup kitchens, they’re ungodly.
As always, the problem isn’t that all religious charities are this bad, but that religious charities are demonstrated over and over again to be no more effective than secular charities from which EVERYONE can benefit. With the amount of money Mother Teresa raised, secular charities wouldn’t have built 500 convents, they would have built hospitals.
But no, government ministers again bring up the amazing argument that groups that have been actively campaigning to maintain their rights to discriminate in provision of services are ‘building cohesion’. Just as Mr Timms is ‘building cohesion’ by telling the 41% of people in this country who have no declared religious faith, who work in hospitals, schools, care homes and charities of every variety that they are incapable of contributing to society as much as people who go to church every Sunday. This is beyond stupid, it’s just plain insulting.
