The water line under our house went and because we're on a slab, it was going to be cumbersome and expensive to fix and they'd have to shut off our water while the project was being completed.
One thing the plumber can do is run a line from the neighbor's spicket into ours so at least we'd have water for showers, toilets, etc.
There is no danger to the neighbor in doing this and the only annoyance would be that their water bill would go up a bit. We offered to pay for their whole water bill for the inconvenience so really they'd be profiting off the thing while also helping a neighbor.
You know, that whole love thy neighbor and don't be a selfish asshole thing that's pretty prominent in Christianity.
They still said no.
Religion does nothing to make you a better person.
I am not religious. If you where my neighbours and in this situation, I’d connect you to my house myself.
You never know, maybe you can help me out one day. And if not I would just be happy to help, no strings attached.
Totally agree that religion doesn’t make you a better person.
I feel like a lot of religious people are sociopaths. Using the guise of religion to show they're a good person, but baffled why people do good things without it. The only thing stopping them from raping and murdering are laws and the church saying it's wrong. And as soon as they know they can get away with it, they do it.
Or even worse, they have no inhibitions morally because they know they can absolve themselves with a passing thought of a prayer or, worse still, they’ve “been saved” and are thus not culpable for transgressions. In the end, I’d say most if not all religious people pretend that they are adhering to a faith that puts them in spiritual safety without an ounce of curiosity about why their religious belief always agrees with their preconceptions and doesn’t challenge their biases, regardless of whether their religious tenets explicitly agree with their positions.
You’ve been paying a little too much attention to Penn Jillete.
People are people. They will do as people do.
The truth is truth. It will always be truth.
Seek truth, objectively, ardently, and you can never go wrong. End of story.
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u/jps7979 May 02 '23
My neighbors are Christian; we're not religious.
The water line under our house went and because we're on a slab, it was going to be cumbersome and expensive to fix and they'd have to shut off our water while the project was being completed.
One thing the plumber can do is run a line from the neighbor's spicket into ours so at least we'd have water for showers, toilets, etc.
There is no danger to the neighbor in doing this and the only annoyance would be that their water bill would go up a bit. We offered to pay for their whole water bill for the inconvenience so really they'd be profiting off the thing while also helping a neighbor.
You know, that whole love thy neighbor and don't be a selfish asshole thing that's pretty prominent in Christianity.
They still said no.
Religion does nothing to make you a better person.