While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeless people in every country, while some continents are in a horrible poverty, while there are not enough schools, not enough hospitals in the entire world, building churches, mosques, synagogues or temples or spending money on guns, on war industry are the greatest treasons to humanity! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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This quote is one of the most powerful and inspiring quotes I've ever read. As a Buddhist, this quote makes me feel so happy. The concept of "spending money on building churches" reminds me of the story of how one monk who was very wealthy and wanted to become a saint, asked another monk how he could be a good monk. The monk replied, "The best thing you can do is to build a church." The other monk replied, "I agree. But why?" The first monk replied, "When I spend my money on building churches, I make everybody happy."

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