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Take away the tax exemption and these places whither away like vine

They are not at all about worshipping God but about their loyalty to their church’s leader or leaders.

I bet that a serial rapist or pedophile started this abomination! That’s not a church but an excuse for not punishing bad people.

Every ABUSER relies on many ENABLERS. SILENCE ENABLES MORE ABUSE. Anyone asking for silence to a crime, including family members, trusted friends, or lawyers and judges, is an ABUSER, and/or an ABUSE ENABLER. They are equally complicit in these abhorrent crimes and need to he treated like criminals.

You misspelled 'cult'

When the last church is torn down because of a lack of attendance, mankind will finally reach enlightenment.

I wish there was a hell so these vile freaks could burn for eternity.

No surprise. The church is essentially an organization made by men to control others and permit their own behavior.

should take a look at the project 2025 plans for women, real attempt to create nothing but tradwives, you can already see the efforts-eliminating student loans for fields women pursue, going after women’s right to vote, going after women in govt jobs & the military, referring to women as dei hires

It's been going on forever.

...and they swallow it, hook line and sinker, even women who did not grow up in a cult atmosphere 🥺

Not just the women, but the men as well. 1 leader controlling the tribe.

Exactly! Watching that series now and the parallels between the tRump regime and the structure and rules and goals of Gilead are mind blowing.The only fracture is that Trump is no more a believer in any god than he is a brilliant business man. Gilead has bastardized god, just as Evilgelicals have.

Self serving patriarchy in religious fascism

Another example of how evil religion truly is. Can someone please name one good thing that any religion has done for the world? I'm talking something that benefitted humanity as a whole and isn't superseded by all the horrific abuses that they've perpetrated against humankind.

“This” church?

Of course. Because all religion is CULT, and all cult is designed to keep people feeling victimized and vulnerable so the cult can take advantage of that to continue exerting control over its adherents. It's all so the cult leader(s) can gather resources for themselves & get a mob to promote them.

Not in our lifetimes.

When they stop being rich

Sin-flattening like this is basic American Christian theology. Sexual assault is always the survivor’s fault, whatever reasoning the congregation has to use to get there. Abusers know asking for forgiveness is a get out of jail free card & asking for accountability is “bitterness”.

Not the only church organization, by far; systemic within Christianity. Not why I left organized religion but saw too much never addressed. Asked a pastor why he didn't report a father for chaining his teen son to a tree. "We're trying to save him. We'll help the boy leave." 😡 Faith is private.

It's almost like the rules were written by the pedophiles.

Me wonders if this isn’t really about the man normally making more income in that house, and the church keeps wanting their taste. Women and children, oh wellll…..

It's God's job to forgive. It's our collective job to protect children from pedophiles. They don't change. In 44 years of working in child protection they reaffend over and over. Never trust a supposed redeemed pedophile. They don't change.

America is a really f**cked up country.

Church doing church things.

A method designed by abusers.

Those are not actions of forgiveness. They are gaslighting meant to protect institutions and power on the backs of the abused.

Decent churches have safeguarding officers, DBS checks and disciplinary procedures including getting the law involved.

Hell and heaven are on earth. If a person believes in god then they know that God gave us free will. It is our choice what we choose to create.

They've gone back to the days where child sex abuse is kept quiet and swept under the rug.

Ridiculous

This is fucking sick.

Forgiveness without remorse and behavior changes is not a god recipe for healing, just converts people into complicity.

I’m fine with having an “unforgiving heart”. I’m not fine with pedos.

More and more it seems like most churches are just cover for pedophile and SA rings.

Sounds like all the rest of them, maybe just a little more overt.

clearly that church is run by pedophiles & abusers

Imagine a mind set that breaks more than it fixes... Then keeping it around for hundreds if not thousands of years. Top tier species 🙃

Just making shit up as they go along as per usual.

Servants of Satan....

Thank you for the warnng.

In my experience, this is not uncommon

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Some of the many "christian" churches are so very, very sick!

Weird that the ones trying to keep people safe are the ones who are not being forgiven here.

Yeah, when your priest/minister/(magic guy in a dress)/what have you, starts preaching that it’s time to check their browser history, and ask how their wife and daughter got those bruises. Disturbing how many churches are like this. Different denominations,from basically cults to some mega churches⛪️

“Not perfect, just [automatically and repeatedly] forgiven!”

A big poster with this should be behind every Democratic Congressperson/Senator when they’re questioning Trump officials. They can pull out a pointer stick and tap the relevant bullet every time the official uses the ploy.

Oh so this is Russell Brand's new church?

That is disgusting. All minor children should be removed from every single one of the homes of those parishioners.

Does this ever end?

Lock them up

Disgusting & sick…

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Religion is just a cover for pedophilia it seems.

Sounds like a church "donvict" and his re-PEDO-KKKans could get behind (so to speak).

The marriage of two institutions.

I see why some people hate religion and burn churches down if this is the message this church has. Wow 😮

DARVO is the 11th Commandment apparently

Ditto

Verdict: FAIL — The Path of Deception. Forgiveness is framed as spiritual healing, but the physical output is the psychological torture and silencing of child abuse victims.

Once again, it’s not the drag queens.

Religion is largely just sex trafficking. I’m sure there is some good people doing some good things, but on the whole, pretty much it’s just pimping and trafficking.

This is a sad reflection on the Christian faith. People have been twisting it for thousands of years to fit their agenda and excuse immorality, and Trump is one of the symptoms.

I suggest to Watch «Jesus Camp» documentary.

How convenient! 🙄

How convenient. Personally, happy to have an unforgiving heart, in such a situation.

Wretched

Failed broken society The Christo fascists hypocrites have fucked this country up so bad Incest is best if kept in the family their motto I hope St Peters spit in their fucking faces as he boots their ass to purgortory

Let me guess: The abusers are the ones who set this rule. Typical. “You have to forgive me and if you ever mention my crimes again, it is YOUR fault”.

Sounds like MAGA.

This is a very common tactic used by predators to escape accountability, freeing them to continue seeking their next opportunity to commit sexual violence.

Blame the victim church. This is exactly the church a pedophile would join. Constant forgiveness and silencing of victims.

As my grand pa said, "Never trust a person that has a forgiveness loose in their pockets, coz they often do more harm than good!" Seems like he was right...

Frankly I believe this is the MO for every church.

Shut it down.

This is why I've turned by back on religions. When I learned of systemic abuses by Christian churches in the Americas via Residential School system and the Sixties Scoop(1950s to present) where Indigenous children were kidnapped and brainwashed to be 'good Christians' like Russia in Ukraine I cried.

That sounds like a good deal.

I'm glad the law is getting them!

Interestingly, I was just at the very hotel they held to white house correspondents dinner where they had that shooting recently.

Fuck religion.

That church is sick

That's not like any Lutheran Church I've ever known... I doubt this church is sanctioned by either the #ELCA or the #LCMS.

Jesus didn't forgive everyone. Why's there a Hell? Scare tactics? (That's my short answer.)

Describes any evangelical church in the south.

Sick churches are the real groomers, why people after being abused or their children continue on going to these churches is beyond understanding

There are hundreds religions. Is this the right one? 🤣🥸👹

Sounds perfect for the GOP Pedophile Protectors, let's get them there.

You forget that if religious clerics couldn't rape children every hour on the hour & be forgiven, then nobody would become a pastor & every seminary would be empty. Wouldn't even believe in God neither. God'd abandon us for Venus where He can watch more porn there.

A haven church FOR the sexual abusers.

Religion is a scam

The OALC, AUB, and IBLP churches all seem to have a common theme.

All the sinners are in one place. At church.

Bingo. 'Christian' and 'asshole' aren't mutually exclusive.

💯

Isn’t that the truth!! I have experienced exactly that. Recently, I watched an exceedingly pious woman that I had just met,treat a waitress in the most vile condescending manner possible. I am an atheist, and she is proof enough that there is no god. Or, he is an evil jokester to create that POS.

It's a cult, just one that ppl accept as "normal" so they can justify their cult like behavior.

"You've got to be taught before 7 or 8" youtu.be/AAls_gUhlQw?...

Oh absolutely.

Evangicals spending the last decade saying they voted for Trump because they were Christian pretty much put the idea of identifying as Christian meaning they have good morals to bed.

I've met both kind and unkind people in religious and non-religious circles. In my experience, morality and decency come from how people choose to treat others, not simply from whether they identify with a religion. Actions tend to tell us far more than labels.

Close that 'church' ! Its a den of Pedophiles! Arrest them all.

Also boys. Patriarchal BS religion teaches that women & kids are property & belong to the 'paterfamilias.' In ancient Rome, where the Roman Catholic church got most of its ideas (it was from Saul of Tarsus, not Jesus*) even adult men had to obey Dad. *Parable of Martha & Mary. Mary was a disciple.

"The burden of sin would shift..." - the burden of crime, you mean. Sin isn't real. Law is real, and crimes are real