A discussion around family table.

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My family is VERY catholic, to the point where they invite a priest to lunch at least once a week. They do not know im an atheist so i try to suffer through that. However last week an interaction caught my attention.

The priest was talking about a Romanian homeless guy who still came to his Church every week, apparently not for shelter but for belief. He did not even beg for money there. But the priest said he was troubling the rest of the people (smell, mostly) and ended up getting him thrown out by the police, and they were laughing about it with all the ever-present immigration jokes...

Isnt the Church the ONE place on Earth where this guy should not be persecuted, judged by what he looks like and should be helped ? To me this was not much, but it was enough to know that hypocrisy is the key word in Christianity. It disgusted me.

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Everyone's entitled to their opinions I guess; but, I'm more appaled by the amount of kudos this crap got.
We've had 2 or 3 homeless stop into our chuch. While the smell can be distracting, every time someone took them over to the associate pastors' house (right next to church) got him washed up, took him to the pantry for some food and sat with him in the pew for service. Rarely did they come back more than 3 times, but not for being rejected. The fact you attack all of Christianity saying that hypocrisy is it's main point disgusts me. I'm not naieve enough to think that people don't talk and hypocrisy, child molestation, and various other attrocities do happen in Christianity, but they happen to people regardless of religion. If Christianity was an extreme minority and Atheism was what 80% of the population was atheist do you think theese things would magically disappear? They'd probably be about the same, IMO. sorry if this comes off as a little harsh I'm on vicodin's and rally don't care