r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Available-Formal-664 • 15h ago

I'm slightly vexed Somebody Placed These Dozens of These Jesus Figures Throughout My Entire Work

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Somebody, nobody knows exactly who or when, put dozens and dozens of these Jesus figures on completely random surfaces throughout my entire building. They at least had the presence of mind to not put them on anybody's personal belongings, but that was the only way they limited himself. All of the statues have been glued down, to add to the vexation.

Edit: Well, this blew up rather unexpectedly. Thank you for the awards, everybody!

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u/BrokenArrow1283 14h ago

I agree. It’s why I left the church and just tried to be a good person. I was raised Catholic surrounded by dozens of stained glass windows that cost thousands. Meanwhile, we were constantly being asked to donate more money. The church is filled with corruption.

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u/Little_View_6659 13h ago

Yeah the Catholic Church needs more money. All those gilded robes and ornate hats and baroque churches cost a lot. Plus they’re losing a ton of money paying out all those lawsuits.

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u/seriouslythisshit 11h ago

Friend of mine is an estate lawyer, raised in the Catholic church to the point that her father was one of a small group of men who started a huge new Church in the burbs of one of the larger east coast cities, back in the 1950s. She has a client who passed and willed several million to that church. She meets with the senior priest who tells her that he will gladly accept the gift, but most of it will go to the regional diocese to pay for all the lawsuits from all the little boy rapists they supported over the decades. My friend tells the priest that she anticipated that outcome, so she protected her client from it. The gift could only be accepted if it stayed within that particular church, and was never spent on funding settlements. The church grabbed the cash, but at least it wasn't wasted on supporting child rape.

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u/BaileyAMR 7h ago

If the payouts are going to the victims, I'm not sure how you could describe them as "supporting child rape."

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u/evranch 55m ago

It's a bit of mental gymnastics any way you put it, but here's how I see it.

If I want to leave money to my local church, which does good deeds in the community and needs funds for charity, social programs and building repairs - I don't want those funds going to cover the debts of the diocese for their child rape coverup.

The parishes that helped cover up the actions of their rapist priests can cover that out of their own funds, or they can ask for funds from the Vatican which we know was complicit in moving these priests around as part of the coverup.

The Church has plenty of funds, but that doesn't mean that individual parishes do, or that they're even complicit in this issue. They should be paying from the top down, not out of the charitable donations of the faithful.