Well yea. Wouldnt you say that christianity has an undeserved position in our society? Wow, building million dollar churches really helps the community. Not like they could have used that money to help the people in their congregation.. Why do christians deserve a seat at every table, simply for being christians? Why is that nearly a requirement in most states to be elected? Because of christians spreading lies about atheists and how they have no morals because they dont believe in a higher power.
Taking a stance against christianity and a stance against god are two different things. One is real, actually effects people on earth. They claim to be a charity but who do they help, exactly? Their 501c is abused at every chance they get. New tires for the mercedes? Oh its for the church... tax free.
In high school a couple of my class mates did and experiment to see which churches actually help people if you go to them in need. Not one of them offered anything but "council" and some old dirty clothes. No financial help, no help with doctors appointments, no help with anything. I thought a charity was supposed to help people in need? Not here, apparently. We went to 37 churches in the area.
One offered to sell us a gallon of a cure all that could cure cancer, parvo, std's, and basically any other disease for the low low price of 800 dollars. Oh and lots of books, they offered lots of books to buy, tapes to buy, all to "help" with our situations. Isnt that disgusting to you?
Many of the kids involved lived in abject poverty, drug addicted parents, suffered from mental illness of physical impairments.. People who actually needed help. None was offered in any form.
The local mosque in my area was burned down by a christian on a motorcycle. The local synagogue and Hindi churches were also vandalized. I also dont see muslims and jews on my street corners with signs and huge crosses yelling at traffic. I dont see them going around burning churches. I dont see them running youth groups that turn out to be very bad places for kids to go. I dont see them running conversation camps. I dont see them condemning gay people, openly, for simply loving someone. I dont see them opening day cares to pound allah or yaweh into kids heads, like I see in my town.
I see sikhs shaving their beards for covid, not claiming they have a religious exemption from wearing a mask. I dont see jews or muslims trying to force their religious icons and commandments onto state property then crying about it when its found to be unconstitutional, again, but insisting it should stay. I just dont see it, not locally anyways. I see christian politicians spending tax payer money fighting losing court battles, wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars on their own arrogance by denying invocations from any non-christian and giving permission to put religious symbols on state property. Then they lose in court, every time. Billions have been utterly wasted this way. All because of their own entitlement. I dont see jews or muslims on tv, lying to everyone about how prayer is BANNED in schools and their holy books are ILLEGAL in schools. Lying about how evil atheists are and how evil colleges are for teaching science.
See my point? They draw the ire of people because they feel like they deserve to be number 1, always. Never denied. Their arrogance and self-entitlement is so over the top. They feel like they deserve total domination of the USA, all its schools, all its institutions, and should have control of what your kids learn in school.
Do they not claim that the USA is a christian nation, all the time? Its not. It was formed as a secular nation with clear boundaries between church and state. Churches say they are entitled to tax payer money, even when they pay no tax. They will lie, cheat, and steal to get money. Like from the PPP program. Are you a church or a business? A church when it comes to paying taxes, a business when it comes to asking the government for money. How can they have it both ways? They preach politics from the pulpits, should result in a loss of their 501c but it never does. I wonder why...
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