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Originally Posted by Teuthida

And that's a great part of what I have trouble with. It seems more people use religion to divide and hate rather than love. You don't need to believe to believe in religion to be a good person.

A quote popped up in my Facebook feed that is a good reply to this. I'll reply to the rest later.

“It is no disgrace to Christianity, it is no disgrace to any great religion, that its counsels of perfection have not made every single person perfect. If after centuries a disparity is still found between its ideal and its followers, it only means that the religion still maintains the ideal, and the followers still need it."

~G.K. Chesterton: 'Illustrated London News,' March 2, 1929.

The man in the video you posted is a fantastic man. We should all strive to be more like him, Christian or not. However, if your point was to state that Christianity is woefully inept at inspiring its followers to its ideals, I don't see how this video proves that. ALL religions are inept at inspiring their followers to purity, charity, and love. We are human. We are imperfect. As G.K. Chesterton says above, that would only be the fault of the religion if the religion altered its teachings to appeal to those who refuse to follow them.

Okay, one more quote before I go. I'll have to paraphrase this one since I can't find/remember where it's from:

"If you're worried there are too many heretics in church, don't worry. There's always room for one more."