Can you tell I hate Sylvia Browne?

A local developer recently contributed a donation to a volunteer rain garden/ prairie restoration project which my mother and I are coordinating. Did he do this because he deeply cares about the environment? I guess he would like to see green spaces incorporated into our town so eyes are turned away from the massive sprawl which he profits from. I think he’s primarily concerned with something people like falwell considered heavily – PR.

The church is guilty of massive amounts of tax evasion. The church wastefully builds gawdy crosses and builings which destroy our natural landscape. The church is indierectly or directly responsible for many of the social problems which they pat themselves on the back for helping to overcome.

“For years, people have been financially supporting Novus because for years they have been telling us that there would be nursing homes, day cares or at least soup kitchens that would be funded by our donations and by buying the books and paying a monthly $20 Study group fee.

NONE of that ever came to fruition that I know of and if it was, believe me it would have been in BIG BOLD PRINT on the newsletter!”

You can read more here. I’m glad some church goers recognize the inaction. When I was a kid, I didn’t think about it. In retrospect, the church I went to was one of those irrelevant social clubs Martin Luther King warned about.

Plus, some of the growth came from people returning, reflexively, to their church after 9/11.

So, is this report purposely “rosy” but based on false assumptions?

Good post, Naomi, although teeth-grindingly infuriating! Building eyesore-monstrosity-psyche-and-money-gobbling mega-churches is supposed to improve humanity and the world how? Solve global problems like, oh, I don’t know, extreme poverty how? And of course, none of the cabals behind these mega-brainwashing centers are ever content with their mere building and regular full-capacity attendance; they’re always asking for more money, most often to bloat their ranks and build more eyesores even more (Benny Hinn convincing his zombie followers that his ministry really, really needs that private jet comes to mind)!

This makes me so angry–!

I really doubt that anything this radical and good would ever happen but the next time someone talks about the amount of good Christianity has done I would challenge them to think of the amount of good Christianity could do but doesn’t.

Sadly, our xian teens would fail to see his excellent point…

Of course, churches do not give back to the community nearly as much as they take in. They consider their spiritual support as worth more than money can buy.

-Berlzebub