It’s boring to me since it’s very easy for me to see the faults of a religion that I have no association with.

I am wondering if there are a lot of exmuslim people here or if it’s people raised in a christian world that just have a specific gripe with islam.

I was raised in a part of the world mostly shaped by christianity and so I was hoping to see more examination of that.

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    118·
    1 year ago

    Believers of any religion come in exactly two varieties: extremists and those who provide aid and cover for extremists. The nice old lady down the street doing a bake sale and donating the proceeds to her church is still supporting an institution that hides child molesters, robs the community of their time, money and critical thinking skills and advocates for harmful public policy that strips people of their rights. That last piece is supposed to be prohibited by 501(c)(3) rules in the US but I’m not holding my breath waiting to see those enforced.

    • Tomad@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      The only wing of the government that enforces the separation of church and state is the IRS. If you can send them proof of political action or anything that violates 501©(3), the IRS will want that tax money SOOOO FAST.

      • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        1 year ago

        The FFRF has been trying. I checked a few of the ones in the list and still see them listed as 501(c)(3) organizations so either there’s stuff happening behind the scenes or their letter went straight to the circular file.

        A little off topic but if you want to get (c) rather than ©, you can use a backslash before either or both the open or close parenthesis and it’ll be skipped by the markdown parser. It should look like this in the editor: \(c), (c\) or \(c\).

        • Tomad@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          I was more meaning on an individual church basis. If you can get pictures of your local church saying “vote Trump”, then that specific church can lose their status. No church can survive it.

          • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
            23·
            1 year ago

            Can you find any examples of a church losing their 501(c)(3) designation or other tax exemptions due to violations of the Johnson amendment aside from the one back in 1992 (“Church at Pierce Creek”, see also Branch Ministries v. Rossotti)? Revocation was in 1995 for their actions in 1992 and the decision was upheld in 2000 after the church made its appeals. I could be missing something but that’s the only case I could dig up where the IRS has followed through.

            From what I can tell, the IRS has very little interest in pursuing this sort of thing once the word “church” hits the paperwork. Would love to be proven wrong though.

    • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      37·
      1 year ago

      go talk to her. Ask her why she is doing what she does. Communicate with that nice old lady instead of writing in an atheist bubble of an online community.