I am always skeptical when volunteers, who are motivated by or associated with religious goups, are praised as “selfless”. Here is an example from
The Standard (
Praise pours in for `selfless' volunteer) of charity workers who are Catholic.
Are these kinds of people really selfless or have they been brainwashed into thinking that there is an all-knowing, all-present, all-powerful being up there who will grant them access to heaven when they die? Is that the ulterior motive behind all these seemingly “selfless” acts by people who are religious?
Compare this to non-religiously motivated acts of selflessness such as
giving blood or organ donation like this example from the same issue of
The Standard of a customs officer donating part of his liver to a work colleague (
New hero emerges in liver saga), which does not appear to be religiously-motivated.