I mean all churches need funding to run and it comes from their members. Mega churches are another thing, run for money
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I mean I grew up with the tammy fay baker stuff so way before my time and im old.
I reject the idea that there is a correct way to read the Bible or worship Jesus. I certainly prefer liberation theology to prosperity Gospel, but I cannot say that one is doing Christianity better than the other.
I used to be Christian and I had all kinds of ideas about what was correct Christianity. I abandoned all that when I realized that those conceptions were much more about me than they were about Jesus or the Bible.
And I think that's true of the practicing faithful. Some are good, some are wicked, but the difference isn't in how they read the Bible, it's who is reading the Bible.
I think that a shiny golden calf will always trick the good into becoming the bad. Trump splashing that gilded gold shit everywhere made him quite successful. /s
i have never heard of that. Which doesn't mean much as there are thousands of differet christian churches and they disagree on many things.
These aren’t christians. The money behind jesusism is absurd. I am beyond quite confident that there would be no appreciation in that camp. Aaaaaand the absolute last thing Jesus is gonna wanna do is see a fucking cross. Are you kidding me? The fuck is wrong with people.? A lotta sick fucks ot there for sure. I’m sure Jesus has better things to do than reminisce about 2,000 some years ago. I don’t think it was a pleasant experience if’n my history stands correct.
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Churches still have bills to pay. Just because they are exempt from some taxes doesn't mean they are bills exempt.
When a neighbor was in the hospital for a week, their small church took $200 from their funds to help them buy groceries.
a televengelist megachurchs almost never does it though, smaller church denominations do that kind of charity.
Exactly. But people have the idea that Jesus was against money. He wasn't, in fact he lived off money given to him by "women of means," and spoke about how one should give. He was against greed and using G*d like these charlatans. He didn't tell regular people to give it all up, just greedy people, because they worshipped money, which is idolatry, adultery against the their marriage covenant to the father. And that's the issue.
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