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Atheist Evangelism
RE: Atheist Evangelism
(November 1, 2023 at 6:42 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: 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 mean, honestly, I did think there was something vaguely shitty about the way my local church food pantry pastor greeted me when I went there. An almost "guilty" greeting.
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Atheist Evangelism - by FrustratedFool - October 24, 2023 at 3:41 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 24, 2023 at 4:41 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by FrustratedFool - October 24, 2023 at 4:43 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by Ahriman - October 24, 2023 at 11:35 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by Simon Moon - October 25, 2023 at 2:21 pm
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 24, 2023 at 4:56 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by FrustratedFool - October 24, 2023 at 5:10 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by Deesse23 - October 24, 2023 at 6:03 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by brewer - October 24, 2023 at 9:58 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by Fake Messiah - October 24, 2023 at 10:19 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 24, 2023 at 11:47 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by Thumpalumpacus - October 24, 2023 at 11:34 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by brewer - October 24, 2023 at 12:44 pm
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by The Grand Nudger - October 24, 2023 at 11:39 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by Ahriman - October 24, 2023 at 11:42 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by Mister Agenda - October 24, 2023 at 12:32 pm
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by Thumpalumpacus - October 24, 2023 at 12:58 pm
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by FrustratedFool - October 24, 2023 at 1:04 pm
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RE: Atheist Evangelism - by FrustratedFool - October 24, 2023 at 1:54 pm
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RE: Atheist Evangelism - by brewer - October 24, 2023 at 3:56 pm
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by Gwaithmir - October 25, 2023 at 6:17 pm
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RE: Atheist Evangelism - by The Grand Nudger - October 24, 2023 at 1:38 pm
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by The Grand Nudger - October 24, 2023 at 1:55 pm
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 24, 2023 at 2:04 pm
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RE: Atheist Evangelism - by Gawdzilla Sama - October 25, 2023 at 2:27 pm
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by The Valkyrie - October 25, 2023 at 2:50 pm
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by Bucky Ball - October 24, 2023 at 4:40 pm
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by no one - October 25, 2023 at 2:50 pm
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 25, 2023 at 3:26 pm
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by GrandizerII - October 25, 2023 at 5:11 pm
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by arewethereyet - October 25, 2023 at 6:28 pm
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RE: Atheist Evangelism - by arewethereyet - October 25, 2023 at 11:27 pm
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by FrustratedFool - October 26, 2023 at 2:37 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by GrandizerII - October 26, 2023 at 7:50 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by FrustratedFool - October 26, 2023 at 8:55 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by GrandizerII - October 26, 2023 at 9:22 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by FrustratedFool - October 30, 2023 at 3:42 am
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RE: Atheist Evangelism - by GrandizerII - November 1, 2023 at 2:14 pm
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by The Grand Nudger - October 26, 2023 at 8:00 am
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RE: Atheist Evangelism - by FrustratedFool - October 30, 2023 at 3:40 am
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RE: Atheist Evangelism - by FrustratedFool - October 30, 2023 at 7:20 am
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RE: Atheist Evangelism - by FrustratedFool - October 30, 2023 at 9:22 am
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RE: Atheist Evangelism - by FrustratedFool - October 30, 2023 at 9:21 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by Angrboda - October 30, 2023 at 9:24 am
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RE: Atheist Evangelism - by The Grand Nudger - October 26, 2023 at 12:05 pm
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RE: Atheist Evangelism - by The Grand Nudger - October 30, 2023 at 4:23 am
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RE: Atheist Evangelism - by The Grand Nudger - October 30, 2023 at 6:03 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 30, 2023 at 6:35 am
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RE: Atheist Evangelism - by The Grand Nudger - October 30, 2023 at 10:21 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by Gawdzilla Sama - October 30, 2023 at 11:46 am
RE: Atheist Evangelism - by The Grand Nudger - November 1, 2023 at 2:28 pm
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