RE: Atheist Evangelism
November 1, 2023 at 6:42 pm
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2023 at 6:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The people I'm thinking of often work in food production and are devout believers and givers to various charitable causes. It does not benefit them or the hungry. It benefits the churches and their employers....when those two things are different, ofc......
I would feed anyone who shows up to my door. I don't even get billions in funding from the us alone to do it - but I do know that this will not and can never be how we deal with that problem. As least not if we ever want to disabuse ourselves of it. I feel like spilling the beans here gives the wrong impression. Go work for a food bank. Donate money to a food bank. Install a walk in cooler for a food bank, that's what they really need. I've been vocal about this on the boards. If we want to use food banks as a solution we need to make them an actual part of a solution. They are not and literally can't be, at present. They're not structured that way, they don't have the equipment to be that, and the models literally do not work.
"but they hand out little cakes" is not a defense of a given religion, it's the preamble to one of the first objections (on record) to that very same religion.
I would feed anyone who shows up to my door. I don't even get billions in funding from the us alone to do it - but I do know that this will not and can never be how we deal with that problem. As least not if we ever want to disabuse ourselves of it. I feel like spilling the beans here gives the wrong impression. Go work for a food bank. Donate money to a food bank. Install a walk in cooler for a food bank, that's what they really need. I've been vocal about this on the boards. If we want to use food banks as a solution we need to make them an actual part of a solution. They are not and literally can't be, at present. They're not structured that way, they don't have the equipment to be that, and the models literally do not work.
"but they hand out little cakes" is not a defense of a given religion, it's the preamble to one of the first objections (on record) to that very same religion.
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