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What to do with all the empty churches?

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What to do with all the empty churches?
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#11
RE: What to do with all the empty churches?
March 30, 2018 at 8:32 am
I'd rather see them repurposed to secular functions than religious.
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RE: What to do with all the empty churches?
March 30, 2018 at 8:44 am
Tax exempt indoor grow facilities. It's a religious calling.
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RE: What to do with all the empty churches?
March 30, 2018 at 10:17 am
Brothels.
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RE: What to do with all the empty churches?
March 30, 2018 at 10:50 am
(March 30, 2018 at 6:10 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Give them away. It's the christian thing to do.

The Christian thing to do would be to take your soul for a bag of rice.
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#15
RE: What to do with all the empty churches?
March 30, 2018 at 10:51 am (This post was last modified: March 30, 2018 at 10:51 am by rskovride.)
Some would serve as community centers, maybe even replace some of the lost social capital of losing a church community.
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RE: What to do with all the empty churches?
March 30, 2018 at 10:51 am
(March 30, 2018 at 6:33 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Animal shelters.

Or brothels.

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RE: What to do with all the empty churches?
March 30, 2018 at 10:53 am
(March 30, 2018 at 10:51 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(March 30, 2018 at 6:33 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Animal shelters.

Or brothels.

Land fill

Or brothels.  Tongue
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RE: What to do with all the empty churches?
March 30, 2018 at 10:58 am
(March 30, 2018 at 10:50 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(March 30, 2018 at 6:10 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Give them away. It's the christian thing to do.

The Christian thing to do would be to take your soul for a bag of rice.

What soul?
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RE: What to do with all the empty churches?
March 30, 2018 at 11:14 am (This post was last modified: March 30, 2018 at 11:17 am by Anomalocaris.)
(March 30, 2018 at 10:58 am)mh.brewer Wrote:
(March 30, 2018 at 10:50 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: The Christian thing to do would be to take your soul for a bag of rice.

What soul?

The fictional eternal essence said to be susceptible to never ending torture of hyperbolic severity, that can be held hostage against your good slavish devotion to the cause of aggrandizing Christianity, and by sheer coincidence enriching pastors and churchmen in this life.
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RE: What to do with all the empty churches?
March 30, 2018 at 11:40 am
I agree on whorehouses.  All you have to do is bring in a slightly higher class of whore than previously occupied them!
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