• @Viking_Hippie
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    12110 months ago

    So when corrupt preachers rake in tens to hundreds of millions it’s tax-exempt because it’s not a business, but when a pastor actually cares for the needy like their book says to, that’s a crime because it IS a business?

    Fuck that worst of both worlds nonsense! 🤬

    • @doingless
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      1510 months ago

      I work in a religious nonprofit that hosts a bunch of community service orgs including two churches, a teen volunteerism org, a food ministry that distributed 10 mil pounds of food thru the pandemic, a music nonprofit, an acting/drama nonprofit and more. We’ve been getting our ass ridden so hard by local zoning and fire stuff. About to drop $20k plus on a compliant oven hood for a simple oven like you have in you kitchen. I took a cut in pay last year because of this bullshit.

        • @nixcamic
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          310 months ago

          Honestly the r/atheism type angry mocking atheists sure seem to have an axe to grind with someone they say doesn’t exist.

          Like, most people aren’t going into religion with ill intentions, and god doesn’t exist, who you mad at bro?

          • @[email protected]
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            1110 months ago

            You got confused. You’re an anti-theist as in against theism. Atheism simply means without theism. Anyways happy I could clear that up for you. Try to be nicer in the future.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        1710 months ago

        The book is a bunch of non-sensical, contradictory fairy tales written and rewritten by a million dudes, a thousand times over, to manipulate others.

        True, but one of the few things it isn’t unclear or downright self-contradictory about is that the main dude said to help the poor and otherwise marginalised people.

        I love it when people pretend to know what “the book” says better than Christians

        As an atheist who’s actually read the damn thing rather than just gotten the perspectives of conservative preachers and politicians, I’m not pretending. I do in fact know better than some so-called Christians what their stupid book says.

        I also follow the more empathetic parts of it better than anyone on the “Christian Right”

      • @[email protected]
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        1710 months ago

        I love it when people pretend to know what “the book” says better than Christians (or anyone else for that matter).

        There’s no pretending. Most christians have never actually read it, and a lot of atheists are atheists exactly because they have.

          • @problematicPanther
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            210 months ago

            even if you just take the overarching themes of it without looking too much into detail about it, you have one deity saying to commit genocide, then later on the same deity (purportedly) says to not be violent, turn the other cheek, yadda yadda. then a few pages later you get some rando coming in and writing fanfic about the deity’s son that he never met and somehow changes most of the fledgling religion.