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Sins of "modern" church.
| Romania's Orthodox Church is having a project in Bucharest to create the biggest Orthodox cathedral in the world, that being a big waste of money and no neighboring country doing the same. The money is also coming directly from the government and it's doubtful that the expenses for this will be repaid even in 50 years from tourists coming over. They could've spent way less money restoring churches and improving the waful roads in Bucharest, but instead this is a priority?
| Forcing religion onto people that don't want it is totally okay, but nobody else can force other ideas onto other people.
I was walking to class on a "free speech" campus in the bible belt and there was somebody screaming about christian creationism being the only truth and anyone who didn't agree was blind/ignorant. If I tried to do that with evolution or science, I'd be kicked out for "hate speech"
| I feel like rather than a subversion of the church, the orthodox churches encourage exactly rhat sort of church/state integration. It's seldom economically expedient, but religion postulates a higher good than the economy.
I was an aid worker in Haiti after the eearthquake. The people were desparate to find some reason in their suffering, & a priest I knew in Port-au-Prince directed his congregation to a few local voodoo practitioners, whom they proceeded to lynch for witchcraft.
| Anybody hear anything about the Mormon church?
| Are there any actual needs for having a church in modern times anyway? The only thing I can think of is just there for a sense of moral highground. I'm not a religious nut nor a full-on atheist , it's sort of a grey line for me.
| >>412763 there was a lady a couple weeks ago who spoke out against her rapist (who gave sermons or smth iirc). she's been ostracized and i think there's a video of the church members literally shaming her out
| >>412945 People will always have a need to believe in something larger than themselves, & statistically churches & religiousity are far healthier a social support (eg, for the mentally ill & the impoverished) than do social movements.
If anything I'd say the support of a *good* church community is more important today than it used to be because so many people these days end up living so far from old friends & family with nobody & nothing to lean on in their time of need.
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| So much high talk about god, morality and stuff and yet some of those are worse than demons. Yes, there ARE good people among those priests and such, and yet worst of them get all the influence and power. We for example have russian church that tied with corrupt goverment, brainwash people, buying land, destroying museums, schools and parks to empty space for new church. There much more i could tell but its would take shittons of posts.
So.. your turn to share with us, gurl.