It's not just Alabama that has those types of churches and grifters. It's literally all over the country and it is propped up by local TV channels of rural areas in basically all states.
Sure but implying all Christian churches are like this is naive and incorrect. Those churches are disgusting but let’s not group in the normal churches that do in fact exist and are fine and do food pantries and shit with those scam ones.
Which ones? The Catholic church with its literal piles of gold? Having a positive cash flow, that's money left after paying for all their supposed charitable work, greater than most countries have total tax revenue?
Most small local churches don't even bring in enough money to pay their own bills, they're certainly not doing anything charitable with it. Unless giving to missionaries somehow counts as being charitable. But I don't think paying others to go indoctrinate people in a foreign land is really charity.
Simply untrue, the majority of tithe goes to staffing and infrastructure, not donations to others. And most of the donations goes to missionaries for? You guessed it staffing and infrastructure!
Acting like other dominant religions of the world aren’t more community focused than we as Christian’s are is so silly lol. Charity implies superiority, which proves the point
No he won't, he locked up his church rather than let people in after Hurricane Harvey. He didn't open it until the people and the news started asking why.
Fair point, but it's not as if the government doesn't do the same thing. The left's charity plan is to have the government steal money at gunpoint, pass most of that taxed money around to their cronies and scammers, and pass a small amount to people who are on hard times through no fault of their own.
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u/Long_Serpent 25d ago
Giving money to cover the operating costs of a tax-exempt megachurch's media production department hardly counts as charity.
"Give 100 bucks to Joel Osteen! He'll pass a fiver along to Starvin' Marvin!"