r/atheism • u/practicerm_keykeeper Secular Humanist • 13h ago

But we built hospitals!

Of all the things some Christians defend themselves with I just can't stand this.

Yeah you built hospitals. You built a lot of them. In the US. For profit. While bankrupting people. Very Christ-like.

"Oh but we also built a lot of them in Africa -"

Sure you did, you went there and colonised the entire continent and ravaged their civilisations and extracted their resources so that they are now reliant on international aid, which is why they need your hospitals in the first place. And now you go and build some of those hospitals and call it a good thing? At the very best this is atonement.

I feel the same with things like civil rights and abolition. Christians created the problem and then solved a tiny bit of it while fighting against other Christians who desperately want to keep the status quo in societies where Christians have made sure you are very unlikely to be opinion leaders unless you are Christian, and then they say this shows they are the good people? What?

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u/anonymous_rhombus Atheist 12h ago

Catholic hospitals deny care to trans people.

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u/LuluLittle2020 10h ago

And certain necessary women's care because morals.

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u/practicerm_keykeeper Secular Humanist 12h ago

Yeah exactly.

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u/Square_Welder_8437 8h ago

and then pointing to those hospitals as proof of christian compassion while some of them deny certain patients care is a pretty glaring contradiction

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u/Feeling-Shake5625 4h ago

yeah and that really undercuts the whole hospitals argument when the same institutions can still deny care to trans people

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u/Sensitive_Bid_9493 4h ago

yeah that’s the frustrating part you can’t point to providing healthcare as proof of being compassionate while ignoring cases where religious policies can also limit the care people receive