|
Most people agree what positive and negative effects are. If you say that Christians established extensive charity networks, built hospitals, and established great universities, most people would consider that a good effect of religious organizations. If people mention that religion motivated the abolitionist movement, most would consider that good. You can say how some Southerners used the Bible to justify slavery. Most would think that bad.
It's not like we have to reconstruct meaning from zero.
Those things are also more relevant to the American experience than a camp for a few kids.
|