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Jun 24 2021 10:02am
Quote (thesnipa @ Jun 24 2021 10:59am)
non profits, heh.

sure, your typical 100 foot square country Methodist church with a small congregation pays a modest living wage to their pastor, upkeeps the grounds, and dumps any excess collections into food drives and other wonderful programs.

then there's your southern Baptist mega churches with stadium sized congregations that each have dozens of workers making solid 6 figure salaries and a pastor with a mansion, 10 luxury vehicles, and a private jet.

there's churches and there's churches.


The majority of churches aren't "Mega churches".
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Jun 24 2021 10:09am
Quote (thesnipa @ Jun 24 2021 10:59am)
non profits, heh.

sure, your typical 100 foot square country Methodist church with a small congregation pays a modest living wage to their pastor, upkeeps the grounds, and dumps any excess collections into food drives and other wonderful programs.

then there's your southern Baptist mega churches with stadium sized congregations that each have dozens of workers making solid 6 figure salaries and a pastor with a mansion, 10 luxury vehicles, and a private jet.

there's churches and there's churches.


My old lady's parents go to a Mega Church in Kentucky. I'm talking ***MEGA*** church. 9 different locations each considered it's own "campus" with separate associate pastors. Top 10 largest churches in the country.

I went to an Easter service and expected the worst..... boy was I not prepared.

The main campus its bigger than most private liberal colleges. The foyer has a permanent Starbucks inside with an attached café serving full breakfast/lunch menu. Weekly attendance is something absurd like 25000+ people in person and it's streamed across the world to countless viewers.

The actual auditorium is a spectacle....... Stadium seating holding up to 30000 i believe. A full sized jumbotron with all the additions that would make Jerry Jones proud. A full sized baptismal pool that's elevated and see through so they can do live baptisms (which i witnessed). Full Christ-rock band playing multiple songs. Full production team with cameras, boom mic's etc etc etc.

It was fucking incredible. Not once did I think about religion or god. I was at a show.

Oh, head pastor had on a ridiculous tailored suit. Was a complete Narcissist and commanded his crowd like a Shepard herds his flock.

That's not church. That's a scam.
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Quote (thesnipa @ Jun 24 2021 11:59am)
non profits, heh.

sure, your typical 100 foot square country Methodist church with a small congregation pays a modest living wage to their pastor, upkeeps the grounds, and dumps any excess collections into food drives and other wonderful programs.

then there's your southern Baptist mega churches with stadium sized congregations that each have dozens of workers making solid 6 figure salaries and a pastor with a mansion, 10 luxury vehicles, and a private jet.

there's churches and there's churches.


I just don't think the situations are similar at all.

We have one scenario where Skinned wants to tax people for pooling their money together so that they can practice their religion, and we have a second scenario where Skinned wants to tax the general public so that he can indoctrinate children on the public dime. The public has a right to tell him to fuck off.
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Jun 24 2021 10:13am
education to right wingers is "indoctrination" because the left believes in facts and science. that's one way to "justify" your authoritarian tendencies...
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Jun 24 2021 10:14am
This kind of stuff is very certainly anticonstitutional in all european countries, in almost all the middle+ world too btw.
People trying to pass this kind of "laws" should be jailed, deported, or something like that lol.
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Jun 24 2021 10:37am
Quote (Cannabist @ Jun 24 2021 11:02am)
The majority of churches aren't "Mega churches".


then the majority of churches arent ones that should be taxed. and im fine with that. happy in fact.



Quote (djman72 @ Jun 24 2021 11:09am)
My old lady's parents go to a Mega Church in Kentucky. I'm talking ***MEGA*** church. 9 different locations each considered it's own "campus" with separate associate pastors. Top 10 largest churches in the country.

I went to an Easter service and expected the worst..... boy was I not prepared.

The main campus its bigger than most private liberal colleges. The foyer has a permanent Starbucks inside with an attached café serving full breakfast/lunch menu. Weekly attendance is something absurd like 25000+ people in person and it's streamed across the world to countless viewers.

The actual auditorium is a spectacle....... Stadium seating holding up to 30000 i believe. A full sized jumbotron with all the additions that would make Jerry Jones proud. A full sized baptismal pool that's elevated and see through so they can do live baptisms (which i witnessed). Full Christ-rock band playing multiple songs. Full production team with cameras, boom mic's etc etc etc.

It was fucking incredible. Not once did I think about religion or god. I was at a show.

Oh, head pastor had on a ridiculous tailored suit. Was a complete Narcissist and commanded his crowd like a Shepard herds his flock.

That's not church. That's a scam.


im jealous, always wanted to attend one. they are indeed a scam.

Quote (bogie160 @ Jun 24 2021 11:09am)
I just don't think the situations are similar at all.

We have one scenario where Skinned wants to tax people for pooling their money together so that they can practice their religion, and we have a second scenario where Skinned wants to tax the general public so that he can indoctrinate children on the public dime. The public has a right to tell him to fuck off.


what % of funding for colleges comes from public funding? i know it differs, but what's typical?

if u want to attack public funding clamp down on publicly backed student loans, that's the real issue, not the pennies they toss universities in grants. and ill be in the picket line with you.
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Jun 24 2021 10:43am
We are witnessing the reeeee heard around the world.
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Jun 24 2021 10:45am
Quote (fender @ Jun 24 2021 05:13pm)
education to right wingers is "indoctrination" because the left believes in facts and science. that's one way to "justify" your authoritarian tendencies...


yeah, critical race theory is "facts and science". as well as all the other far left propaganda, all of it is "facts and science".
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Jun 24 2021 10:47am
They just want to ensure diversity and inclusion
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Jun 24 2021 11:05am
Quote (duffman316 @ Jun 24 2021 12:47pm)
They just want to ensure diversity and inclusion


Conservatives are known to be diverse and inclusive.
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