(November 1, 2023 at 7:23 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Yeah I get that, I also think that at least some religions are a net positive. Just not the ones running pantries and kitchens at present. The reality of the charitable food space is a fucking horror show, at present. Not just because it's filled with dominionist pieces of shit, but because it's also filled with Not That™ that hasn't yet learned a crucial and objective lesson. That as immediately satisfying as all of their work is....and it is...it's not helping, it's making things worse.
This was not the case at the pantry where I volunteered. Non-denominational, funded by a cross-section of Protestant churches, proselytizing -- or requiring church attendance, etc -- was forbidden. Whether they got more in grants than they gave in food, I don't know. But I know the people we helped ate that day, without being fed a line of bullshit too.
