[WalterBright]

Consider the harm wrought by organized religions in the sincere belief that they were "saving" others.

> Evil can't include people trying to be kind badly

Oh, yes it can, and often is. I just gave you an example. How about another one? Trying to cure people of homosexuality.

> anticommunist bullshit

Communism has wrought more evil than about any other ideology. All with good intentions, of course.

[amag]

I'm currently considering the Pentecostal church which sent missionaries to Congo to build hospitals and teach/train doctors, for instance dr. Denis Mukwege[1], who was awarded The Nobel Peace Prize for his work helping and saving thousands of women who have been raped. The reason these women were raped is not religion, it's technology (the war is about valuable land with rare earth minerals).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Mukwege

[fragmede]

The intense poverty and destitution and hopelessness in the inner cities suggests Americanism (America's brand of capitalism) isn't without it's own flaws though, so there's something to be learned from the communists

[WalterBright]

Something like 90% of it is drug addiction.

The communists simply made everyone poor and hopeless.