Religion supporting refugees: Pope Francis urges European churches to open doors to refugees

[UrbScotty]

Pope Francis implored Catholic institutions throughout Europe to show mercy to the flood of refugees arriving on their shores by offering them shelter.

"May every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary of Europe host a family, starting from my diocese of Rome," Francis said at the end of his Angelus prayers in Rome on Sunday.

"The two parishes in the Vatican these days will welcome two families of refugees."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/06/europe/europe-migrant-crisis/

Religion doing good for refugees.

[msongs]

1. so how many "refugees" will be bunking up in the obscenely wealthy pope's apartment with him? nt

[bvf]

2. Hey, he washed some people's feet

and refused the way-cool red shoes!

Isn't that enough?

[rug]

4. Do you want the link too?

[bvf]

5. Only if you think you could use the practice.

Otherwise, I'm good.

[rug]

6. You can start here.

http://www.caritas-international.de/?adword=google/Brand%20Caritas/Caritas/caritas

Or here, if you prefer.

http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e48e5f6.html

[rug]

3. Do you know there are 11,000 parishes in Germany alone?

11,000 x 2 = how many refugee families?

I bet they'll put up a page asking for financial assistance to deal with so many people at once. Do you want the link so you can actually do something to help them?

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7. Good for them.

I actually don't think anyone has made the claim here that religion is never a motivation for doing good. The claim instead, the one that gets disputed all the time here, is that religion can also be a motivation for evil.

Would you agree that religion can also be a motivation for doing evil?

[UrbScotty]

8. If not for religion, people would find another excuse to do evil things (nt)

[Warren Stupidity]

9. Wow that was unexpected.

[cleanhippie]

10. So religion is an acceptable excuse?

If not when the religious motivation is bad, then why when the religious motivation is "good"?

[UrbScotty]

11. Never said that.

[cleanhippie]

12. If it weren't so damn funny....

Your hilarious failures at pointing out logical fallacies would be just plain sad.

[UrbScotty]

13. Probably because they're successes

...which are the opposite of failures.

[cleanhippie]

14. About as successful as prayer.

You have a nice day!

[UrbScotty]

15. LOL! A lot of resentment toward the idea that religion can do good things!

[rug]

16. What's that phrase they like . . . .

Cognitive dissonance!

[mr blur]

17. No, PEOPLE can do good things -

If you need religion to persuade you to do them then you just lack empathy.

Do try to keep up.

[bvf]

19. Thanks. Mind if I use that as my new sig?

[trotsky]

18. PEOPLE doing good.

Since according to you, religion can't ever motivate someone to do something bad, then it can never motivate them to do good either.

[Warren Stupidity]

20. No it doesn't work that way. See, there are fallacy gifs that clearly state otherwise.