"The Catholic Church is a force for good in the world" (1 of 13)

Debate Chair Zeinab Badawi introduces the speakers for this debate on the Catholic Church as a force for good.

Full video available at http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/catholic-church, audio available to download as a podcast from iTunes.

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[MrDuDeTheFirst]

Here's a thought:

Witch is more moral ? doing charity in the name of Christainty (or Jesus or whatever) or doing Charity because it's the right thing to do ?

[amandarandom89]

@79743618

Sooo.... if i give away lots of money, that makes it ok to burn people at the stake and (cover up the) raping little boys?

Nice to see you've got your morals straight there.

also "founded the scientific method"? give me a break. Aristotle did most of the hard work on that, years before there even was a catholic church.

[xaxie1]

@MrDuDeTheFirst

Both Really, Bible says it is good for christians to give money to charity. It is also good to give money to charity because it helps them :)

[AidansVlog]

@rukussert nice argument but the catholic church is still getting in the way of the fight against aids and equal rights for homosexuals

[trimard71]

@MrDuDeTheFirst The question should be: Witch is more moral? Doing Charity because you're afraid of hell or doing Charity because you think it's just a good thing to do. I see no differences between doing something in the name of Christianity or in the name of good, as in people's mind it is alike (for a christian a least). But there is difference in the moral of a cashier who don't steal because he is afraid of punishment and a cashier who don't steal because he thinks it's bad.

[Joester20]

@HouseHaunter484 yes but the whole point of the comment is that christians do it because they think they will get into heaven for it. Non believers do it because they care about others for non-selfish reasons .

[timburtonfanch]

@HouseHaunter484 Evil? That's just typical religious bullshit.

[highlanderdurp]

what song is in the beginning

[timewilltell7]

watch The Roman Empire Rules Today on google vid

the nazi salute is a catholic salute - watch the first 15 mins

the Vatican is the most evil entity in existence today

[rukussert]

is it then right to support the US after its horrible past of racism, eugenics, and killing in the name of democracy? is it right to support any organization whose members have made mistakes in the past?

does democracy become an evil if its members do evil in its name? does Christianity? does Atheism become an 'evil' if it aided the rise of the Soviet Union and the Third Reich?

it's fun to come up with little emotionally charged phrases to promote a worldview, isn't it? let's get real.