Reply #17: Wrong- my parents, especially my mother helps others because she knows no other way to be

[Marrah_G]

When she was a child in the depression, my mother was raised with 5 brothers by a single Irish mother. her mother not only supported them, but also fed the poorer families in the neighborhood. My mother continued that tradition and has spent her entire life helping others.

She is deeply Catholic but she doesn't see aiding others as something she is required to do, or that it gives her some sort of brownie points.

You can be religious AND be a good fucking person.