• @smackjack
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    21 year ago

    George W Bush was right when he said that faith based charities should not be excluded from receiving federal grants just because they’re faith based.

    • @grayman
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      11 year ago

      Non faith based charities are still religious too. We just don’t call their dogma “religion”. But that’s what it is.

    • DarkGamer
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      1 year ago

      Why should our publicly funded social safety net encourage belief in absurd bullshit?

      • @smackjack
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        11 year ago

        Because feeding people isn’t absurd.

        • DarkGamer
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          1 year ago

          Great let’s do it through secular public means, where it can be done at scale, without dogmatic strings attached, and it can cover everyone and not be an ad hoc patchwork that causes some people to fall through the cracks

          Grants to faith based charities are just a backdoor for siphoning public funds to religious groups. We already subsidize their absurdity and disinformation via tax breaks.