Not racist, but not a fan of any organised religion, as most of them are pretty much money grabbing scams. I was just providing additional context as to provenance - could have been from anywhere and would have had the same response from me. Question becomes: would you have replied the same if I had said it was French?
not a fan of any organised religion, as most of them are pretty much money grabbing scams.
Bit of a strawman here. Generally, most churches aren’t and donate excess money to charity, or possess a historical building which needs to be maintained. My parish didn’t even break even for the past three years and had to lay off a few workers. You only hear about the money grabbing scams because you aren’t in this world, and that’s the news that gets out. “Church raises money for foodbank” isn’t really headline news versus this headline.
To answer your other question: people tend to look down on African and Asian cultures thinking that they know better than their “savage” ways. In reality, Nigerians tend to just have a different cultural attitude surrounding homosexuality, and this comment was likely something stupid that originated from said clash of cultures. We can’t really say definitively that there are superior cultures, as that goes into racism.
Yours is the straw man. I said religion, you talk about an individual church. Different things.
The only headlines for religion are the bad news ones. Rarely hear about religions actually giving their money away. Individual churches might, but the religion as a whole - nah.
Throughout history religion has just been a way to consolidate power and dominate populations. They have been responsible for some of the worst atrocities ever committed, and generally take from those who have the least whilst promising a glorious afterlife if they can suffer in this life.
Even now the largest religion in the world still hoards their wealth like a venerable dragon sitting on their piles of gold, deep in their mountain lair.
Even now the largest religion in the world continues to hide and protect paedophiles within their ranks.
As for racism. I don’t care for it. I don’t like scammers, fascists, or liars though.
As to historical buildings. You did know that the largest religion in the world is one of the wealthiest entities, mainly due to convincing lots of the poorest people in society to donate what they can’t afford so that the church doesn’t have to spend.
Eh, no need to be racist. If this is a Nigerian church, then we’re probably being unfair towards them in this case.
Not racist, but not a fan of any organised religion, as most of them are pretty much money grabbing scams. I was just providing additional context as to provenance - could have been from anywhere and would have had the same response from me. Question becomes: would you have replied the same if I had said it was French?
Bit of a strawman here. Generally, most churches aren’t and donate excess money to charity, or possess a historical building which needs to be maintained. My parish didn’t even break even for the past three years and had to lay off a few workers. You only hear about the money grabbing scams because you aren’t in this world, and that’s the news that gets out. “Church raises money for foodbank” isn’t really headline news versus this headline.
To answer your other question: people tend to look down on African and Asian cultures thinking that they know better than their “savage” ways. In reality, Nigerians tend to just have a different cultural attitude surrounding homosexuality, and this comment was likely something stupid that originated from said clash of cultures. We can’t really say definitively that there are superior cultures, as that goes into racism.
Yours is the straw man. I said religion, you talk about an individual church. Different things.
The only headlines for religion are the bad news ones. Rarely hear about religions actually giving their money away. Individual churches might, but the religion as a whole - nah.
Throughout history religion has just been a way to consolidate power and dominate populations. They have been responsible for some of the worst atrocities ever committed, and generally take from those who have the least whilst promising a glorious afterlife if they can suffer in this life.
Even now the largest religion in the world still hoards their wealth like a venerable dragon sitting on their piles of gold, deep in their mountain lair.
Even now the largest religion in the world continues to hide and protect paedophiles within their ranks.
As for racism. I don’t care for it. I don’t like scammers, fascists, or liars though.
As to historical buildings. You did know that the largest religion in the world is one of the wealthiest entities, mainly due to convincing lots of the poorest people in society to donate what they can’t afford so that the church doesn’t have to spend.
This was such a well thought out comment I’m grateful you made it
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