I have friends who are christians, and lived in a somewhat idyllic evangalical village in Germany for many years. I apologise if my comment seemed like it was targeting solely christians, my comment was more about large self-interest groups in general as well as being a critique on charity.
The Salvation Army is one where there was large misuse of donated funds, evangelicals in America are currently funding far-right magnates, and the muslim caliphate is building mosques in every village in Turkey under the guise of do-gooding. Outside the sphere of religion, you have the Bill Gates Foundation petitioning to not release the covid vaccine for free, and various billionaires funding far-right groups under charitable tax laws.
My point being, any institution will ultimately look after their own interests. In your case, perhaps not at the expense of others, but in many other cases, usually to promote their own agendas, enriching others selectively rather than broadly.
In a fairer world, taxes would pay for social welfare regardless of anyone’s creed.
I know salvation army is often avoided. They’ve always seemed a bit odd to me. They attempt to create their own denomination or something but don’t practice the sacraments? So they don’t really have a real church but they aren’t heretical either. They’re in a weird limbo.
I have friends who are christians, and lived in a somewhat idyllic evangalical village in Germany for many years. I apologise if my comment seemed like it was targeting solely christians, my comment was more about large self-interest groups in general as well as being a critique on charity.
The Salvation Army is one where there was large misuse of donated funds, evangelicals in America are currently funding far-right magnates, and the muslim caliphate is building mosques in every village in Turkey under the guise of do-gooding. Outside the sphere of religion, you have the Bill Gates Foundation petitioning to not release the covid vaccine for free, and various billionaires funding far-right groups under charitable tax laws.
My point being, any institution will ultimately look after their own interests. In your case, perhaps not at the expense of others, but in many other cases, usually to promote their own agendas, enriching others selectively rather than broadly.
In a fairer world, taxes would pay for social welfare regardless of anyone’s creed.
I know salvation army is often avoided. They’ve always seemed a bit odd to me. They attempt to create their own denomination or something but don’t practice the sacraments? So they don’t really have a real church but they aren’t heretical either. They’re in a weird limbo.
I’m interested to hear more about the American far right magnates. Non-churchgoers tend to have a higher chance of being far right.