"The things I want to say to you get lost before they come."

[i_novander]

There's a weighty moral issue I've been grappling with these past few days. Around five, maybe six years ago, I set up a monthly donation to the NSPCC. Back then I was a poor student. I mean, not poor as students go, but poor as people in general go. I'm still poor as people in general go, but less so

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[facticiusvir]

My understanding, as a Christian, of God's opinion on "piety" can be expressed in Jesus' summary of the law, which he gave when a pharisee asked him which of the commandments was the most important. Jesus stated: "the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength." and then "You shall love your neighbour as yourself

[i_novander]

(This is split into two comments because apparently it's too long for just one

[i_novander]

The 99% of Christian teachings I agree with are all also Humanist teachings and we can remove the influence of Religion in society without removing ethics and without removing personal Faith. That's why I support the BHA. I may critisise religions institutions, I may critisise particular religious teachings, I will certainly critisise the Catholic church but I don't mean to attack you because you because the way you reached your conclusions on Right and Wrong is different from the way I reached mine.

I have no doubt that you try to be a Good person both as you see Good and as I see Good, you have never tried to force your faith or your religion on me and have only talked about it now because I brought it up first. Your faith clearly means a lot to you and it's not something I would wish to take away because, again from that This Day & Age song: it's breath-taking to think of you and to learn without faith the sky isn't as blueBut I'm curious as to your opinion on the other aspect of my post: How do you compare the worthiness of

[facticiusvir]

I always found a certain humour in the Stephen Fry's implication that the Catholic Church was clearly bad because they wouldn't let him join, as that doesn't leave much hope for the Women's Institute. But that's just me being petty...

I personally don't give money to, for example, the Church in a charitable sense. When I attend church services (admittedly a rare occurrence) I do give Collection, but that's more about the harsh reality of paying for the Church's property - as it stands, the Anglican Church owns a large number of listed historical buildings which it is legally obliged to maintain at considerable cost. Therefore, I'd struggle to speak from personal experience; especially given that the charities to which I have signed up actually won me over because the girl taking signatures was hot, and not because I felt any particular passion towards their cause. (In case you were wondering, Worst Christian Ever

[little_wh0re]

Charity-wise i'm a massive fan of http://www.map-uk.org/

If the I/P conflict isn't a massive concern for you then http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ is also good

[sporkpenguin]

I am a firm believer in small/local charities where you can actually see the work that goes on and you can know that your money has gone towards the cause rather than to pay somebody to get someone else to donate.
Also, and you are probably already aware of this seeing as you are capable of using Google, you can search for charities based on keywords relating to their causes so you can find things that you want to support at the Charity Commission website

[postcardanswers]

This is a great article, I really enjoyed reading it