I know Lemmy isn’t fond of religion, but I have a story.
Years ago, when I lived in the Northwoods, I’d go to this little Lutheran church every so often; mostly for a free lunch because I needed one. They were the rainbow flag kind of Lutheran, not the bigoted kind. Mostly old ladies. I was always the youngest person there by a few decades, and I was in my 20’s.
Anyway, whenever the basket would come around the pastor made it clear that the church didn’t need money. The building and people who worked there were all paid for by the denomination. What was given in the offering would go to neighbors in need.
Shit, that town had a lot of need, and way too many people too proud to ask for help.
hmmmm there are plenty of seriously bad ones (all the child rape) and proof that their institutions rather protect itself than the kids… you’d need to be saving lives with miracles on the daily to compensate for that one and that is only ONE category of horrible stuff organized religion has pulled
sure but in the same way I would not encourage a 15 year old girl to hitchhike, I would not trust any underage kid with any church… even though hitchhiking is, statistically speaking, safer
I know Lemmy isn’t fond of religion, but I have a story.
Years ago, when I lived in the Northwoods, I’d go to this little Lutheran church every so often; mostly for a free lunch because I needed one. They were the rainbow flag kind of Lutheran, not the bigoted kind. Mostly old ladies. I was always the youngest person there by a few decades, and I was in my 20’s.
Anyway, whenever the basket would come around the pastor made it clear that the church didn’t need money. The building and people who worked there were all paid for by the denomination. What was given in the offering would go to neighbors in need.
Shit, that town had a lot of need, and way too many people too proud to ask for help.
That offering basket paid my bills a few times.
good story, thanks for sharing it… there are definitely true stories that make religion a positive force in the world
unfortunately those are harder and harder to find
Only because the bad ones get more attention. Kinda like HOAs.
hmmmm there are plenty of seriously bad ones (all the child rape) and proof that their institutions rather protect itself than the kids… you’d need to be saving lives with miracles on the daily to compensate for that one and that is only ONE category of horrible stuff organized religion has pulled
Just because there are plenty of seriously bad ones doesn’t mean that all of them are bad, or even that the majority are.
It also doesn’t mean that the churches who aren’t bad are responsible for compensating for the ones who are bad.
sure but in the same way I would not encourage a 15 year old girl to hitchhike, I would not trust any underage kid with any church… even though hitchhiking is, statistically speaking, safer
The ELCA vs Missouri synod.