4mo ago

Church transforms vacant land into massive urban garden, donates 65K pounds of food to people in need

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This is doing church right.
- There's so much good that some churches do. The Methodist near me has a permanent trans flag and a sign saying all are welcome. Do all sorts of good deeds. If you're looking for community and a place to put your charity, either your money or your labor, you could do much worse. It's an established functional thing, actually dedicated to good deeds and love.
  Such churches do exist, and if your a product of western society, as I suspect anyone reading this is, it's the closest thing to heritage and a sort of tribal inclusion you're likely to get. A thing I think all humans crave on some level.
  Then the Catholics, mega churches etc out there giving it all a bad name. Just hateful with a side of systematic sexual abuse. My point being maybe just don't turn your nose up at the mere thought of it. There's so much goodness about if you only reach out and grab it.
  
  I had a priest as a kid who was always saying that god doesn’t hate & neither should you. I remember during one sermon he was talking about Harry Potter(during height of anti Harry Potter bullshit) & how love was a major theme in the book we should all pay attention too.
  He was cool.
  
  Sadly churches are filled with people and people are fallible. The larger the church the more likely problems occur visibly.
  
  I'm not Catholic but I know some good and bad ones. Same with every other denomination. Unfortunately it's the loud hateful ones that keep getting noticed. The quiet ones who do as Jesus commanded and let God do the judging are there, they're just unobtrusive, and don't get media attention.
  
  It has a bad name because it's rooted in magical thinking and overall ill intent regardless of what a few do.
This is actually really cool. Cooler if maybe they can pay taxes next!
- This is a post about churches.
  
  Yes! They can deduct anything they donate from their taxes!
  
  I would like a for-profit organisation that is occasionally gives food on their conditions to pay taxes.
- Churches aren’t tax free because they are churches, they are tax free bc they are charities, just like every other charity out there
  
  False. They are exempt from having to even prove the money is being used for charity... because they are churches. Unlike every other nonprofit.
  
  Secular charities aren't telling people that they are doomed to hell unless they follow their rules and worship their god. Hence the need to pay. Change their tax status.
Maybe start paying taxes, on that and all other land they've confiscated.
- Why? I mean, they are literally providing free food.
  
  One is doing it.
  The whole religion should be required to pay taxes on the money they profit off of their members.
  Maybe if these religious outfits all did this stuff, the stuff they preach, maybe they'd have an argument against paying taxes, but they don't, so they should be required to give back by taxes, but we all know that will never happen, big scary man in the sky doesn't like it.
- Churches aren't tax free because they are churches, they are tax free bc they are charities, just like every other charity out there
  Frustrating af that hardly any of you understand this.
  
  You're the one who's wrong here. All other 501c3 nonprofits have to show their books and prove it. Churches get a rubber stamp.
  Stop spreading this lie of yours
  
  That’s just wrong. Churches are tax free because they are churches.
  Don’t believe me? Go look up a church’s 990… oh, wait… you can’t. Because they don’t have to file them because they are “special” in the eyes of the law. Not just a run of the mill charity.
  
  Frustrating you don't understand how churches work and the "charity" they do is self-serving.
That's so awesome!:-)

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