Someone famous, but out of favor, once stated that, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." I view that we all exchange energies, and some exchanges are more healthy than others. I think that religion is one of the more pervasive addictions. I think that people operate out of terror of punishment, or literally self generated neuro-opiates. They continually self medicate with the concept that they are doing good, they are favored, they are first in line for something better, (heaven, God's favor etc) and there is not much you can do about the spiritual zombies. They might actually do some good, get someone fed or healed, but, unless their faith is healthy, they simply pass along their disease state. This is how spirit works anyway, there is an evolution involved. Our material success is not a blessing from heaven, but a mark of where our interests lie. We are focused on the material, and as a luxury item, once we have consumed many of the world's resources, we go out and do missionary work, to seal the deal.
The west is still the same chauvinistic bunch that colonized, and enslaved in the last three centuries. They have no respect for non-western traditions, and go to proselytize even in Christian areas, that need to be culturally christianised, that need to be of a certain sect to be truly christian.
In the early centuries after Jesus Of Nazareth's "death", there were more christians in India, than anywhere else in the world. They were brown christians (so they didn't count), following the teachings of Timothy, and according to some, the teachings of Jesus himself, who didn't die on the cross, but lived to a ripe old age and fathered many sons, and is buried there. These christians were a nuisance that had to be crusaded against.
The zombie missionaries, are a nuisance, and an insult to the rest of the world. They assume that non western individuals, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, have no spiritual maturity, and are wrong in their faith and need help in matters of spirit. This is just an indicator of how unevolved these missionaries are, spiritually.
They aren't giving, they are being right. They practice a totalitarianism in life that is echoed in their spiritual life, giving an absolute righteousness and authority to punishing spiritual duplicates, of their own pathetic lives.
Tom Delay praying about the Tsunami disaster, spoke that passage of the bible, that talks the foolish man building his house on sand. And that the Lord doesn't hear the cries of some that call him lord. There is a case of spiritual power mongering and corruption, right there.
I think that the world may learn what giving is truly about, in aftermath of this disaster, because we have plenty more just like that one, on the way. It is my hope that we can rise above our little pale walls, and connect, because it is the way that we will survive as a species, when much worse things occur.