Yoshie asks what secular organizations provide the services religious charities do.
Well, religious folks often argue that the Dept. of Health & Human Services, Medicare, Social Security, etc. are secular and godless. Well, good -- they ought to be.
Private religious charities are one thing, but government aid should be secular and thankfully, much of it is. The danger is things like the White House Office of Faith Based Initiatives -- that is, more religion in the govt., instead of less. Food Not Bombs is great, but unfortunately it still can't compete with food stamps. It'd be great if it could. Instead of non-governmental secular charities, many folks set up secular aid programs through the government (WIC, Section 8, etc.), which you seem to have missed.
-B.
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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> It's not just megachurches. Almost all religious
organizations, even
> small ones, offer social services of many kinds.
What social services
> secular leftists offer? Nothing, for there is
currently no secular
> leftist organization that can rival even smallish
mainline Protestant
> denomination.