A story as old as Christianity: a priest needs a new BMW, but is stuck in a small parish with not enough people, so he is naturally shaming people to increase their donations.
From reddit:
Let's try to estimate how much the priest made from blessing the houses:
2500 people is let's say 625 houses (let's say 4 people per house), and let's say he got "measly" 30 Euro per house, that would still be 18 750 Euro with no taxes for a few days of work, and he's pissed.
From reddit:
Quote:A parish priest compiled and published a top list of believers by the amount of money they paid for house blessings. Locals are horrified: 'He even started reading it at mass'
The parish priest in Croatia has published a list of the amounts of gifts that believers gave for the blessing of their houses, which has seriously angered parishioners, RTL reported. He also published the names and surnames of the believers, as well as the exact addresses of the houses. The amount of gifts from believers from the settlement near Sisak ranged between 10 and 200 euros.
The public announcement of the sums of money has upset many in the parish, which has 2,500 believers, especially due to the fact that it is a poor area devastated after the earthquake.
Mr. Mijo told RTL that the shameful practice began with the arrival of a new priest who reads out loud the amounts of donations at mass. Those who gave the minimum amount due to difficult living conditions are the most shamed.
"That's not polite, that's not human. That's unacceptable to me. And a shame," Mijo Dolenec did not hide his anger in front of the cameras. "It's shameful to publicize how much someone gave and then have it posted. On a Facebook page? Well, that's not nice, it's not fair," Robert commented.
“Those who don’t have anything gave 10, 20 euros each and it turns out that the entire parish now knows who gave how much. These are mostly pensioners and these pensioners are barely making ends meet,” warns Mijo.
“Absolutely everyone will feel ashamed, I don’t think it’s very appropriate,” said Lidija. The RTL team met a lady in front of the church who couldn’t believe that the church had published a “charity register.”
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Let's try to estimate how much the priest made from blessing the houses:
2500 people is let's say 625 houses (let's say 4 people per house), and let's say he got "measly" 30 Euro per house, that would still be 18 750 Euro with no taxes for a few days of work, and he's pissed.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
