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7. Some problems are far too big for the churches.

Most of us in local churches don't have the training to provide appropriate help to those with mental illness and behavioral problems.

In so many areas, the kind of help individual churches can offer would be too haphazard. A guaranteed monetary payment to the needy week in and week out? Allotments to ensure women and children have access to dairy products and other food items? Food stamps and the SNAP program? Only the federal government can meet those needs.

On the other hand, organized religion can and have organized to take on very big local projects. Hospitals. Health clinics. Universities. Schools. Mental health providers and counseling.

I totally agree that any help should be given with no strings attached. No proselytizing. Coercion of any kind is antithetical to what God demonstrates. That includes about whether to have a child or not, to have an abortion.

That feels right, that they have taken bits and pieces from various religions and cobbled them together to fit their own desires.