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Your experience isn’t typical and most people who do good deeds do it because humans get psychic benefit from helping others. Is the joy of giving an ulterior m
by DataWorker 7y ago
Your experience isn’t typical and most people who do good deeds do it because humans get psychic benefit from helping others. Is the joy of giving an ulterior motive in your mind? Most evangelicals don’t care as much about converting others as they do about feeling pious and close to God themselves. Mormons and JW are somewhat exceptional in their missionary focus, oddly do since they believe in a finite number of people will be saved but then again religion isn’t about logic but faith and psychic benefit.
- _bxg1 7y agoLet me clarify: there were many genuinely compassionate people there. When I say "ulterior motives" I don't mean (necessarily) selfish motives, but an incredibly warped and misguided idea of what it means to "help people". They scooped everyone into a single proverbial bucket as "needing to say a prayer to accept Jesus" and didn't generally interface with people as real, multifaceted humans who might have more complex needs. They thought the way to help the most people was to industrialize and streamline everything.