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Really? Guess that explains why we are facing issues over over population. Unless you're trying to be pedantic on me and are talking about like Mars or something, in which I will have to specify when I say world I'm using it in a philosophical context of referring to the universe and human civilization specifically.
Define the word nonexistent,
To not exist, To not be,
non-; not
exist; to have being in a specified place or under certain conditions; be found; occur
and explain how could war be nonexistent.
By organized prolonged conflict not to occur ie. war being nonexistent. I really didn't think I would have to spell this one out.
In many historical records, people have given up their spare time, which is not much, to help erect churches and cathedrals. Unless you can convince the main religious community to stop building churches and instead lend their time to, say, cancer cures, then your points can become valid.
I think it's still quite valid. Just because people have given up time to build a church doesn't mean a thing to whether that time could have been used in more productive means. Further more what is donated largely goes into the pockets of a select few rather than charity and you really can't say that religion holds a monopoly on charity. For example,
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church), which touts its charitable work, spent 0.7% of it overall revenue on charitable causes. Compare that figure with the American Red Cross which spends 92.1% of its revenue on the physical needs of those it helps."
"The best of the worst appears to be the United Methodist Church which allocated about 29% of its revenues to charitable causes in 2010."
The Myth Of Religious Charity
The ecard used in this pic is a little off as the link points out the $71 billion is in annual government subsidies, but the way the money could be used is accurate to a degree.
