Religions > Atheism > Another Tax-exempt Christian Organization Building Communities...
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"D-word" |
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28 Jun 2005 07:50:35 PM |
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Another Tax-exempt Christian Organization Building Communities... |
Part of the Trolling for Jesus=AE line of educational products.
Big Churches, Bad Neighbors
People generally have a positive impression of churches, thinking that
they are a good addition to a community - but that may be changing.
Many churches simply take over a community, ignoring laws that everyone
has to follow and generally disrupting people's quality of life. And
they don't seem to care.
Fort Worth Weekly describes such a situation in Arlignton Heights:
"This is not about religion," said Dave Anderson, a Methodist and
ordained Southern Baptist minister "in recovery," who lives in the 3900
block of Birchman. "It's about respect for a neighborhood of
hard-working, tax-paying citizens and the arrogance of a church that's
forgotten Christ's commandment to 'love your neighbor as yourself.'"
Christ Chapel, residents said, has not only encroached on their
streets for Sunday parking for years, it has managed to get city
approval to "privatize" a block-long section of Margaret Street between
Pershing and Birchman avenues. For the past couple of years, they said,
the church has been buying and bulldozing houses and trees along
Pershing, Birchman, and Calmont for parking lots and temporary Sunday
school buildings with little regard for the citizens who live nearby --
and sometimes without regard for the law.
One tactic the church has used, Swartzfager said, is to buy and
*bulldoze a house or two* in the middle of the block near a home owned
by an older widow or heirs. Then, with empty lots in the middle of the
block devaluing the houses on either side, the church makes an offer to
"take the houses off their hands before the value decreases even more,"
he said.
One might try to say that in order to determine whether a person is a
"Christian" or not is to ask his or her neighbor. I wonder what we
would hear if we asked the neighbors of Christ Chapel? Unfortunately,
this sort of behavior is entirely consistent with "Christianity" as it
is actually practiced by religious authorities - they care more for
their own organizations than for anyone who might get in the way.
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/027804.htm
God bless 'em.
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| User: "Buddude197" |
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| Title: Re: Another Tax-exempt Christian Organization Building Communities... |
28 Jun 2005 08:07:03 PM |
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"D-word" <yank_ees_suck@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1120006235.470217.277360@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Part of the Trolling for JesusŪ line of educational products.
Big Churches, Bad Neighbors
Damn dude, cross posting this to some of those party atmosphere groups in
addition to your home football group? What's your take on the Ty Law
situation. Do you think he's evil?
People generally have a positive impression of churches, thinking that
they are a good addition to a community - but that may be changing.
Many churches simply take over a community, ignoring laws that everyone
has to follow and generally disrupting people's quality of life. And
they don't seem to care.
Fort Worth Weekly describes such a situation in Arlignton Heights:
"This is not about religion," said Dave Anderson, a Methodist and
ordained Southern Baptist minister "in recovery," who lives in the 3900
block of Birchman. "It's about respect for a neighborhood of
hard-working, tax-paying citizens and the arrogance of a church that's
forgotten Christ's commandment to 'love your neighbor as yourself.'"
Christ Chapel, residents said, has not only encroached on their
streets for Sunday parking for years, it has managed to get city
approval to "privatize" a block-long section of Margaret Street between
Pershing and Birchman avenues. For the past couple of years, they said,
the church has been buying and bulldozing houses and trees along
Pershing, Birchman, and Calmont for parking lots and temporary Sunday
school buildings with little regard for the citizens who live nearby --
and sometimes without regard for the law.
One tactic the church has used, Swartzfager said, is to buy and
*bulldoze a house or two* in the middle of the block near a home owned
by an older widow or heirs. Then, with empty lots in the middle of the
block devaluing the houses on either side, the church makes an offer to
"take the houses off their hands before the value decreases even more,"
he said.
One might try to say that in order to determine whether a person is a
"Christian" or not is to ask his or her neighbor. I wonder what we
would hear if we asked the neighbors of Christ Chapel? Unfortunately,
this sort of behavior is entirely consistent with "Christianity" as it
is actually practiced by religious authorities - they care more for
their own organizations than for anyone who might get in the way.
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/027804.htm
God bless 'em.
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| User: "ScottLK" |
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| Title: Re: Another Tax-exempt Christian Organization Building Communities... |
28 Jun 2005 09:53:43 PM |
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Yeah, why the cross-post? Geeez! Somebody tries to change my life and I'm
gonna blame you .................
Mind Made Up And Not Changing It Scott
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| User: "John C tx" |
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28 Jun 2005 10:45:07 PM |
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Mind Made Up And Not Changing It Scott
In the Jets group we just have to worry about idiots calling each other
mantits not some guys who can't deal with his religous & political
problems so he gets his release in a football newsgroup.
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| User: "BigDaddyJoe" |
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| Title: Re: Another Tax-exempt Christian Organization Building Communities... |
29 Jun 2005 05:50:55 PM |
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"John C (tx)" <coachingclinic@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1120016706.994531.268720@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Mind Made Up And Not Changing It Scott
In the Jets group we just have to worry about idiots calling each other
mantits not some guys who can't deal with his religous & political
problems so he gets his release in a football newsgroup.
Who are you calling an idiot? If you've got something to say to me, say it
to me directly.
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| User: "D-word" |
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| Title: Re: Another Tax-exempt Christian Organization Building Communities... |
28 Jun 2005 10:25:51 PM |
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ScottLK wrote:
Yeah, why the cross-post? Geeez! Somebody tries to change my life and I'm
gonna blame you .................
Mind Made Up And Not Changing It Scott
Lol. The Lord works in mysterious ways, and sometimes, well, he's just
one vindictive SOB with a hankerin' for some D-vine retribution.
Don't worry, all the Jehovah's Witnesses are already in bed at this
hour....
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Part of the Trolling for Jesus=AE line of educational products. All
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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28 Jun 2005 10:33:45 PM |
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In our last episode
<1120006235.470217.277360@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, D-word pirouetted
gracefully and with great fanfare proclaimed:
People generally have a positive impression of churches
Not me. I can always tell I'm in a bad part of town when I start seeing a
lot of churches...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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