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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Agreed - A lot of NGOs are run by churches and carry the baggage of those organisations. Whilst not being a fundamentalist atheist, I can see aid or international development being something that needs to be divorced (good choice of phrase eh ?  ) from ties to faith. |
I am quite against religion because it discourages critical thinking and esteems dogma. That said, nothing is proven and all notions of truth must be taken on faith. This means all people hold a "religion" of sorts, even if they are agnostic.
I agree though that charity should be administered with the least amount of religion as possible, however I lean towards Libertarian notions that funding charity (socialism) by taxation is outright slavery. I'll say that I'm not necessarily against all slavery though.