Ha ha!
We’ll pull the biggest robin hood of all time!
We’ll all bust their doors down and rob them all and give it to the needy like they are supposed to be already.
Who’s in?! Let’s all rob the churches and give it to the needy people of earth!
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I know how you feel.
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I’m shocked to learn how much pastors make a year, can’t remember the number, but way too much!
I think therefore I’m Atheist!
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Or, by keypad, they could watch how they donated all their money to robin hood approved programs.
Many churches in my town have programs that support the needy. Your idea sucks ass.
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We all know the churches don’t actually help the needy mal.
It’s all a scam.
If the churches of earth began to help the needy then there would be no needy people left.
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You, and your posts, as so full of ■■■■. You’re absolutely clueless. Why don’t you spend two seconds thinking before you post? I swear I haven’t found a single post of yours yet that’s worth reading.
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I went thru a brief period of homelessness. The government agencies didn’t do anything worth mentioning for me. Not one of them. The few that did anything were simply helping me stay where I was, not lifting me up or out of my situation. It was churches that fed me, clothed me, and one in particular (Salvation Army) that got me off the streets. Very grateful to them and happy to know they are there for others like me.
Also, as a member of a 12 Step program (AA), I’m grateful to the churches who have let us meet in their basements on the cheap for all these years.
BTW, I’m not exactly religious.
10-96
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I am religious, very religious.
There is no denying that there are good programs and good churches, but, for every good church there is a scheming one.
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Of the seven Churches in Revelations, only one Church was credited for proper worship and service.
When pansdisease uses a bit of serious humor to hold many accountable, an idea that has historical merit, it’s too serious here.
Don’t read my posts then.
The churches bring in billions of dollars collectively, and look around, they aren’t helping ■■■■! It’s a front organization so they can do whatever the ■■■■ they want. They’ll give you a ■■■■■■■ bag of rice and then go buy their goddamn mercedes benz and big ■■■■■■■ house.
They are taking in free money, billions worth, and doing ■■■■ with it.
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Humor?
What humor?
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Yeah that’s a generalisation. My parents church on Christmas didn’t ask for offering they asked for it all to go to the homeless shelter in our town.
My dad is on the board so he knows where the money goes.
Some churches do mean to help there communities!
There was serious humor in the original robin hood tactics. Robin hood fought for keeping the air, waterways and roads free for all, to name a few examples. My apologies for assuming you were suggesting the same.
Oh. The edit.
its funny you say this pans disease because you couldn’t be more wrong,
if things go the way they are just now there won’t be any churches left and then maybe you will be happy,
its people that don’t go to church that don’t help there communities etc, and people with sticky fingers that are greedy and don’t care for anybody but themselves that are at fault so this goes out to everyone ‘are you one of these people?’
just asking
If churches abided by the Bible, we would see no poor on the street and preachers preaching in parking lots because they couldn’t afford churches.
i’m hoping for a revival hahaha
people are scared of it,
thats the main problem, fear
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This topic is now closed. New replies are no longer allowed. Locked because it is apparently a conflict magnet. Everyone has said their piece, so let’s cool down and move on?
Pixel
(Wearing moderator hat again.)
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I’m going to leave this thread up because there is some truth to both perspectives here.
As Pans Disease has suggested (in a tongue in cheek manner) - perhaps money could be better spent than in churches if you really want to help the poor in the world.
I googled around and here is what I’ve found:
" the finances of the Catholic church in America are an unholy mess. The sins involved in its book-keeping are not as vivid or grotesque as those on display in the various sexual-abuse cases that have cost the American church more than $3 billion so far; but the financial mismanagement and questionable business practices would have seen widespread resignations at the top of any other public institution."
On the positive side:
“there are now over 6,800 Catholic schools (5% of the national total); 630 hospitals (11%) plus a similar number of smaller health facilities; and 244 colleges and universities. Many of these institutions are known for excellence: seven of the leading 25 part-time law school programmes in America are Catholic (five are run by Jesuits). A quarter of the 100 top-ranked hospitals are Catholic. All these institutions are subject to the oversight of a bishop or a religious order.”
And then there is this - which may be good depending upon how many of the poor are treated in their hospitals:
The Economist estimates that annual spending by the church and entities owned by the church was around $170 billion in 2010 (the church does not release such figures). We think 57% of this goes on health-care networks, followed by 28% on colleges, with parish and diocesan day-to-day operations accounting for just 6% and national charitable activities just 2.7% (see chart)
and in the USA:
The church is the largest single charitable organisation in the country. Catholic Charities USA, its main charity, and its subsidiaries employ over 65,000 paid staff and serve over 10m people. These organisations distributed $4.7 billion to the poor in 2010, of which 62% came from local, state and federal government agencies.
In another article it quotes:
“Church consultants say that only 3 percent of average church’s budget goes to help poor”
Here is that article:
So - draw your own conclusions.
Here is the full article I read:
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