Blood Wine wrote:Constantinopolis wrote:That depends on whether they actually practice what they believe, or just go to church on Sunday but otherwise don't take their faith very seriously.
If everyone in the world were a truly practicing Christian - actually, never mind everyone in the world; if just the people who currently call themselves Christians were truly practicing Christians - that would be enough to end world poverty, and greatly reduce the number of wars and other conflicts. This is because truly practicing Christians are people who spend most of their time trying to help their brothers and sisters in need.
But I do not believe that it will ever be possible to get a majority of the world (let alone everyone) to be truly practicing Christians.
Really? do you have any statistics to back this up? I've never seen any actual statistics on Christianity charity - I dare say charity would rather take a hit,while local churches would recieve more and put back into the community due to the small/close knit communities,bigger churches would slush the money into closed books to do god knows what with it
I'm not sure about less wars though;the same faith does deter invasions (I mean,not a lot of people want to kill someone of their own faith),but when everyone beliefs the same it falls to the background as a unimportant factor in day to day life (like taking the train to your job,it's routine and background radiation rather then a deciding factor)
You missed his point. If all Christians acted like Christians, the mega churches wouldn't embezzle, we'd all take care of our fellow man,