moshquerade
No Lifer
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Why do you feel the need to push your beliefs (or should I say non-beliefs?) onto others, but have shit fits if anyone were to push their beliefs onto you? That is what you are doing.Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Originally posted by: moshquerade
I have never been in any church where anyone said, "God needs money".
At the church I go to there is a collection at every mass. It is voluntary. It is not a "membership fee" that you have to pay to remain a member. The minister/priest/pastor rarely mentions the collection except when they are collecting for something extra like for right to life, missionary work, etc. I have never been pressured to give.
Then you go to odd churches. I spent 12 years in Catholic schools and we were all most assuredly pressured to give. Every single day there was a strong request for more money or more time. You were expected to donate at mass, you were expected to sell raffle tickets, you had a quota of candy to sell, you were expected to volunteer for various tasks around the school and church, every family was pressured in hundreds of ways to pony up more cash and more free time so that the church could make more profit.
I still find it funny that churches need money at all. You believe that the invisible man in the sky has ultimate power of life and death over every person and utterly controls what happens on earth, but it doesn't bother you that the guy can't handle a checkbook. He CAN feed the poor and hungry with manna from heaven, but he wants you to pay for it instead. Truly and utterly astounding. Yep, the almighty created light with 4 simple words, but if you want the lights on in the church where you worship him you have to pay for it. He can't say "Let there be light in my churches", eh? Would that be too hard for him? He can surely take 1/10th of a second to say the words to make that happen for all eternity, but it's better if the church collects money every day instead. ROFL!
I am not in this thread telling anyone to believe in God, but you and others feel the persistent need to ridicule anyone who doesn't feel as you do about religion. It's quite hypocritical.