Pastor faces charges for keeping church doors open to help homeless
Pastor faces charges for keeping church doors open to help homeless
The Ohio church is located next door to a county homeless shelter but often takes in those the shelter cannot help.
Holy shit, I hate religion as much as the next guy but the one time a church is actually doing something good they get strapped with this bullshit.
It's more than one time. A good number of churches actually run soup kitchens, donate to those in need, and are inclusive to all. I'm not religious, I just feel like these kinds of churches aren't as well represented in media. That being said, just like people, churches can be as charitable as they are intolerant.
Even so, a lot of those "good" churches will still promote the mentality that Republicans are on their side.
”So, my concern would be, ‘Hey, let’s make sure we’re representing Christ well in all of this.’ We’re a church, you know. This is what we do,” Avell said.
Republican Jesus has taken over the US Supreme Court, while following the teachings of the actual Jesus gets you charged with a crime.
Every day the corrupt stray further from the light of God. It’s not even a religious concept. Just be a good person. That’s all Jesus ever asked, and it’s the same thing an ethics professor will tell you. Just choose to be good.
Why is it so hard? And why do so many evil people, especially fallen religious people, obsess about punishing people who choose to be good and loving in their little corners of the world? Why is that even your business?
Jesus didn't just ask people to be good. If you really delve into the new testament with a critical eye, you may notice that Jesus was a bit of a dick throughout. He calls people derogatory names, condemns innocent and unknowing souls to an eternity in hell to prove a point and force others to follow him, he is a total copyright troll; flipping tables and condemning followers who make a buck selling Jesus merch, he's a classic mooching street urchin character who convinces working men to give up on their careers to become vagabond beggars, and you gotta be a huge narcissist to do the whole 'eat of my flesh and drink ofy blood' bit. Really, Jesus' followers are exactly like him; control freaks with NPD and a grudge against humanity for not following them blindly, who make themselves victims to prove a point.
If you really delve into the new testament with a critical eye,
done. you're wrong
Dang, maybe trump IS the second coming
That fig tree has it coming
A court filing states the building is zoned as Central Business, and people are not allowed to eat, wash clothes or sleep on the property.
Always bureaucracy.
Soooooo communion is illegal too then?
Maybe they have to chew and spit it out. Zoning laws are harsh.
'Love thy neighbour' doesn't apply to the homeless, I guess. Except that it does, especially.
They can't be your neighbour, if they don't have a house.
In this moment, this man is sort of living the platonic ideal of Christianity.
Christians are supposed to be willing to suffer to do the right thing, and explicitly one of those things they're supposed to be willing to suffer to do is help people. Care for sick, the poor, and the lost regardless of how the law feels about it.
The law commands he turn a blind eye to the suffering of his fellow human, but justice does not come from the law and their Bible has clear instruction on this.
Galatians 2:19
For through the law I died to the law, that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and given himself up for me.
I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing
My town has to have a whole town hall over churches making warning stations. It ended differently but half the town has to tell the council to fuck off with punishing people for trying to keep people from freezing to death.
warning stations?
Warming, my bad.
It always amazes me that so many self-professed Christians have almost as much disrespect for their religion as I do.
My disrespect for Christianity is not based on a disdain for Christianity, it is based solely on my disdain for Christians.
Not the Christians who mind their own business.
Not the Christians who actually display a sense of morals and ethics.
But the preachy hypocrites. Fuck them. Sideways. With a section of rebar.
We are gonna be the next Sodom and Gomorrah
Burnt to the ground along with 3 other cities on the same river because of a meteor shower starting huge wild fires?
If it's burning and rivers Ohio has you covered.
Good on this guy, his heart is in the right place. It sounds like if the shelter had their shit together he wouldn't have to break their zoning law.
Imo the true core of christianity is doing what is right to help people, even when the government can't or won't, and that's something I can get behind.