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Where I live, the 4yo would get molested by a priest, and that would get covered up by the bishop. Which is also a pretty good reason to leave / not join the church.
Had a church ask us what brought us to the church. The cafe, popularity of the pastor, social meida advert, etc. We said to worshih god,
it was not on thier list as a reason to go to church
I joined because I want you to bleed my bank account dry by demanding I “give” every time I walk in your doors.
I guess, maybe they thought in comparison to other churches?
But yeah, if there is only one church in the area, like there often is, then it’s a bit silly.
“To worship who? Oh, Trump! We need to add that on there.”
Modern religions … any and all modern religions are all the same now
They don’t worship a God … or Gods … or Saints … or prophets … or angels … or Holy Spirits
They all worship money and power … and their message is one of control and obedience, so that they can have all the money and power.
They’re all basically the same.
Yes, I really don’t like this new model of religion where people are more loyal to their priest than their god.
Pretty sure that’s also how religions were historically…
The structure of the economy has changed fundamentally. And so the goals of these privately bankrolled institutions have changed with it.
Churches, as institutions, no longer aspire to maximize the number of middle class bodies in pews, because the middle class is no longer flush with surplus cash. Instead, they need to attract extraordinarily wealthy individual patrons to survive. To that end, church officials making a spectacle of casting out a single kid from a non-wealthy family for being “Woke” operates as a kind-of fundraising event for the patrician class.
Modern religious institutions don’t exist to tame and homogenize a frontier population’s moral code. They now serve to legitimize and promote high ranking officials as More Holy Than Thou. And as churches gain more roles of state government, its the public that has to ask special dispensation to join the church, not the other way around.
Don’t rainbows mean 👉 👌 ?
Not even. The rainbow was god’s covenant with man (or Noah, specifically) that he would not flood the world again in future hissy tantrums. Some wingnuts have not RTFM.
Well, okay. A lot of them.
Most, even.
Noah gay, lol
The only christians i’ve known who read the bible are now ex-christians
If this Noone guy wants to join a church, let him.
