[Bored chemist]

An app on our smartphones where one can contact a priest before they plan to murder, steal or masturbate.

Do you realise that the way you have written it means it's the priest who plans to murder, steal or masturbate?
It's not the same as
"An app on our smartphones where one can contact a priest before one plans to murder, steal or masturbate."

[Europan Ocean]

There is religion and spirituality centred on the conscience. It is obscured if it is too closely tied to nationalism or race or a law system. In NDEs people discover that Jesus is not big on law keeping but prefers live compassion.

Through creeds and catechism can come differences and through superstition surrounding magic, and different gods, races and financial differences and hardship, and some have believed themselves a better race. WW1 was from a misjudging and a terrorist triggered off a collision, for Serbia against Austria-Hungary. The Germans, French and British had so much in common, but there were dividing alliance lines. No hate there, political error, like bad architecture.

[hamdani yusuf]

Good deeds make the recipient happier or healthier.

Is this a good deed?

Report: Kim Jong Un fed uncle alive to 120 starved dogs
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/03/newser-kim-jong-un-uncle-execution/4303319/

[hamdani yusuf]

I have no  doubt that holocaust deniers could "improve their performance" by reflection too. But a polished turd is still a turd.

What do you mean by improvement here?
Turd can be turned into compost.

[alancalverd]

It's fairly obvious. If your mission is telling lies, you could find ways of telling more lies or ensuring that each lie reaches more people. Why else would politicians use Twitter, demand broadcast time, and employ coaches and speechwriters except to boost their KPIs?

[alancalverd]

Is this a good deed?

Report: Kim Jong Un fed uncle alive to 120 starved dogs

Starving a dog is never a good deed.