(June 23, 2025 at 11:29 pm)Sandman Wrote: Hey didn't say religion - or the government was good.
Still like America tho.
Lost my job for awhile. Forced to accept charity from a church/government food bank.
Didn't like it at all. No Atheists to help me out then.
You say their charities fail. But I got the food when I needed it.
Life's never perfect.
You said yourself they didn't have the cash etc. on their own so they went to the gov't.
The charity then worked for me so how can I consider them as failing?
Reality can be ugly, not what you want, when you are forced to swallow your pride.
Sorry you were on rough times, and I don't have an issue with the charity that churches do. It's one of the few things I like about them. If I were in that spot myself, I wouldn't be too proud to get help from a church. I'm nominally a member of the local Unitarian Universalist Congregation.
Personally, after mooching off my friends and relatives and secular charities, I would first turn to the UUs and after them I'd try the United Church of Christ. I'd have to be really, really hard up to go to fundamentalists for help.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
