#taxthechurches — Public Fediverse posts
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This #TikTok reminded me that the “Separation of Church and State” was not supposed to extend to the #JudicialSystem. 🤔 #LGTBQ #TaxTheChurches
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@gcblasing Yet, people who’ve never molested children or covered it up still can’t file for #bankruptcy protection for outrageous #studentloans .
#catholicchurch #pedophilia #childmolestation #taxtherich #TaxTheChurches
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@00Aaron "Nothing hates like Christian love"
Reuben Kaye 'Live and Intimidating' 2023
#hypocrisy #ReubenKaye #religion #ReligiousPrivilege #TaxTheChurches
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CW: Religious abuse
Soooo...
I get a LOT of flack for being an atheist - compound that when I state my position that Buddhism is, in fact, just another religion and needs to not be treated as a 'philosophy' and therefore above reproach. As though there isn't a gendered hierarchy (there is), as though a privileged man doesn't run things (he does), and that abuse doesn't happen (it does!).
OF COURSE IT DOES BECAUSE THERE IS A POWER IMBALANCE THAT SEES VULNERABLE PEOPLE ABUSED.
Case in point: the top guy of the Buddhist cult just apologised because he was caught telling a young boy he kissed on his mouth to "suck my tongue".
All religions and their representatives need to be held legally accountable, pay taxes and be subject to critical thinking, transparency and be called out on their bullshite and abuses.
All of them.
#atheist #rationalist #secular #CriticalThinking #ReligiousStupidity #privilege #TaxTheChurches #BuddhismIsAReligion #abuse #transparency
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Why is there so much corruption on Wall Street, in politics, and in the religion business?
Because there are no real impediments to cheating.
The cost to the #MormonChurch for hiding $32 billion in investments?
$5 million. That's a lot, right? No.
That's 1/6400 of the value.
0.0156% of the value.
That's a rounding error. That's the catering budget for the church execs.
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An oldie but goodie:
"Like many #fanatical preachers, #Falwell was especially disgusting in exuding an almost sexless personality while railing from dawn to dusk about the #sex lives of others. ...From his wobbly base of opportunist fund raising and degree-mill money-spinning in Lynchburg, Va., he set out to puddle his sausage-sized fingers into the intimate arrangements of people who had done no harm." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/05/jerry-falwell-faith-based-fraud.html #hitchens #taxthechurches