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Christianity might not be very useful and a waste of money, but we shouldn't defend dumbasses that go around burning buildings for fun.
They're doing it because of the genocide but ok
This won't help to give them reparations from the church, it only antagonizes them further.
This might be a bit of a mindblow for you, but some people don't accept weregilds or, like, care about antagonizing criminal organizations.
The vast majority of churches are positive influences on their community and don't deserve to be incinerated. I'm saying this as an atheist.
Edit: I guess I should specify my experience is with Canadian churches. I've been to several near me over the years, I can remember a few that even had pride flags in the windows.
Hmm are you thinking of libraries? Because libraries and books should definitely not be burned and are a monumentally positive influence on their communities. I would highly recommend checking one out near you and researching the historical relationship between the indigenous people and "the church" so you better understand the context here.
I didn't realize that modern churches had time machines that allowed their congregations to go back in time and inflict horrors upon indigenous peoples
If your modern congregation starts in about how residential schools were a not so bad actually when another bunch of childrens graves is discovered there is admittedly a temptation to burn everything to the ground because God isn't getting around to it fast enough.
[Citation Needed]
I understand why you say that, and I'd like to believe it too. I still wish there were stats on that...
Especially considering they don't pay taxes. If the value of their social efforts don't reach the amount of money they'd be paying in taxes, then they're actually a net negative.
The programs these churches run are typically filling in gaps in social programs that the government doesn't have the political mandate to enact.
If these churches were taxed you'd see their charities diminished while the funding went to some pork belly spending project, or at the very least not related to what services the church is suddenly not providing.
Not all government spending is a net positive.
Like I said, I wish there were stats on that.
You say "typically". I think you mean "ideally", or maybe even "traditionally".
I think churches should be required to prove their charity like other non-taxable organizations, or they should be taxed like businesses.
As one of the over 700,000 children that was sexual abused as a child at church, you are clearly living in a fantasy world.
Also, as one Canadian to another; go kick rocks, bud.
If you don't like churches burning, then you should target the leadership of the church which is being less than 1,000 million percent cooperative with any investigation into anybody in their institutions history that ever enabled or covered up for this shit. Either we hang some church officials for their inhumanity or the churches need to be burned to the ground to make sure nobody has to look at that shit anymore and be reminded of what they got away with.
Somehow when you kidnap children, murder them in the backyard, bury them without funerals, And then hide all this information from the police, people seem to think that if you get away with it long enough the police shouldn't investigate you and punish you the way that we would any other child murdering psychopaths. It's probably best that Canada doesn't have a death penalty, but then why not punish these people by locking them up?
Do you have a list of specific people you think should be prosecuted?
Your comment history has gone from normal, to advocating cruelty to animals, racism, genocide denial, and blatant false information.
We have free mental health services available in Canada. Use them.
I’ve lived on the same block as two Canadian churches and can assure you they are terrible neighbours and a terrible influence.
Not hating gay people should be the default; no one gets points for that.
I won't argue with any of the points you've tried to make. I'll simply pointy out that you're all over this thread, apologizing for churches. All fucking over.
if it was not for a church near me i would have starved to death. in the usa
If not for a humanist charity near me I would have starved. Didn't get anything other than food shoved down my throat.