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And that is what he makes a lot of good points about.
Frankly, there are consequences for every action we choose. Too often we blame our choices on the others around us instead of taking responsibility for the actions we take. Helping others isn't so much about good and evil as it is simply about being more productive in the long run. It's beneficial to others and yourself, and it's the best action because the most people benefit from it, allowing more people to benefit themselves and others in the future.
I'm not saying sell your flat screen and move to Africa (although for some people, that's what they want) do something simple in your local community. Find a group of people to start something if nothing exists.
If all religions could focus on working as community, the rest of the stuff wouldn't matter, and then we might actually be close to attaining the ideal all these religious structures are striving for so fervently, clinging to dogmatic laws that eliminate any core value to spiritual teachings of any sort.
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"Science without Religion is lame. Religion without Science is blind."
-Albert Einstein
"There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter."
-Max Planck
"The quiet voice of peace is rarely heard over the din of the crowd."
-Unknown-
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