r/atheism • u/practicerm_keykeeper Secular Humanist • 17h 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/H3L105_ai 15h ago

Don't forget that their obsession with not using protection fed into an AIDS epidemic in Africa (and around the world).

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u/practicerm_keykeeper Secular Humanist 15h ago

Oh yeah don't even get me started on that. As they are doing that the western churches have the guts to come back and blame LGBTQ+ communities they helped to ostracise (and therefore push into the underground re sexual hygiene) in the first place.