Originally published at: Attendance sinks at Robert Morris's Texas megachurch - Boing Boing
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Megachurches are primarily personality-cult businesses meant to enrich the pastor and his family. When the head grifter is exposed as a creep, some members will leave. The real question is whether enough donors will leave, taking the only thing that matters to these Mammon worshipers elsewhere.
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Tax all churches
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That’s all? Holy shit, your pastor and all the replacements are morally bankrupt, your “church” is an abusive hellhole, and your money is going to enrich the abusers. And only 17% respond negatively to this? I just cannot comprehend.
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Religion is a powerful lie.
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The church is just a framework for all of the social and community type stuff that happens in the building. The religious part is not necessarily the important part. This community is where many of the members find their identity, as well as plenty of social services. How many people will leave their community just because the government becomes corrupt? Especially if they don’t live near where the corrupt people are.
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Leaving a church is not nearly the commitment that leaving a town or city is. We left our previous church over encroaching trumpiness at a much lower level than this. I understand the severing of ties to toxic people can be painful, but maintaining toxic relationships is far more damaging. Especially those with children being put in danger, I cannot grasp the priorities.
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Speaking as someone who was raised by lapsed Catholics, who would just shudder when we kids asked them about their religion, I feel that.
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Rockapella covering an appropriate Zappa song. Sad to think it’s only gotten worse in the 43 years since it was written.
“Tax the fuck out of the churches!”
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The church I grew up in had a youth pastor who impregnated a teen still in high school, married her due to the scandal, and then abused her emotionally and physically enough that she committed suicide, now a teen mom who never managed to graduate from high school. To my knowledge, even this didn’t drive anyone else from the church, but seeing a childhood friend destroyed and the institution that enabled it doing nothing to the clergy who destroyed her was one of the final straws for me. Last I checked, a couple of decades ago, he was the pastor of his own church. I doubt his congregations ever knew, or would care if they did know – he’s a white man with an ivy league degree, charismatic, good with children . . . how could that be wrong.
(edit: spelling.)
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Gateway…to abuse
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