• john89OPM
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    6 days ago

    I personally say, good riddance!

    Hopefully we can pivot from helping people as a guise to recruit them into a religion to helping people because they need help!

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      This is an incomplete and probably bad take as churches are important for many black communities in the south and can be one of the places that makes sense for a get out the vote movement

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        You don’t need a church for any of that, which is my point.

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          I think a normal country does not, The USA has shown that they may still need it.

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        That sounds like a false equivalence. I doubt the churches you’re referring to are the it’s closing from lack of interest…

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          You know what? You make a great point