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It's religion's primary job to care for the spiritual needs of those related to them in the faith, and then to care for the physical and material needs of each other by determining there exists a genuine need.

I believe it's the other way around.

Based on Christ's example he fed the mulitudes first and then ministered to their spiritual needs. He did this over and over again because he understood that hunger, thirst, and disease could become barriers to hearing the Word.
I've seen diapers. And believe me, my mother is right. What's in the pooh-pooh is like the Bible. The truth is in there.

Celine Dion