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Church transforms vacant land into massive urban garden, donates 65K pounds of food to people in need
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That’s simply not true. There isn’t enough money being made by religious organizations for that to be the case, and the tax exempt status of religious organizations is not connected to how poorly the working classes are faring.
I'm pretty sure that Jesus guy that christianity is so famous for was doing it all for free.
Jesus had wealthy women giving him money.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+8&version=GW
I mean, there's just no way to verify that really. None of the gospels were written during the time he was supposedly alive. The closest would've been decades later.
It's interesting you assert Jesus ministered for free, rejected what I said as lacking verification. We all pick and choose based on our personal peculiarities, mine having been finding more books that were excluded and relating that information towards parables describing the hero's journey in yet another way. I'm not finished learning yet hence I leave aside what I've not yet delved into. I'm curious as to why you would accept he ministered for free and reject women supported him?
It's not that deep. It's generally accepted that Jesus ministered for free. You went into specifics, which are less so accepted.
Personally, I don't even believe that the man actually existed. He's likely just an amalgamation of a few people.
Guess what? I'm not so sure he existed either. He existed in the gospels though. The same place the women who supported him did.
Eta I can find fault with Osiris and Isis being siblings and spouses too but I don't. It's really not the point of the hero's journey and that was the cultural context at the time the myth was born. We evolve.
Yeah it's a game of telephone millennia old. I don't think it's too big an ask to meet the universe halfway. Do what you can with what you've got, the rest is up to God/the universe/luck or what have you.
I always said God doesn't need your money. His kids do. And that's all of us who aren't out living a Walden lifestyle, relying on bartering... Oh wait, barter is a cumbersome way of exchange, so where goods and services are little fragments of God, too. Or the universe. Or luck.