the_human_being
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Any way one slices it, religion has been a huge benefit to the world as a whole. It has caused the construction of schools and hospitals, orphanages, etc. Religion brought civilization to millions of backwards peoples. Without religious organizations I don't know how we all would have made it. Even now, whenever there is a disaster that strikes, it is most often the churches that respond even quicker than does any government agency. Churches feed the poor and house the homeless, they run half-way houses for drug addicts and alcoholics as well as shelters for pregnant and battered women. Even here where I reside, the two largest churches operate the Baptist Hospital which is the area's largest employer and the Catholic Church operates Sacred Heart Hospital.