On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > The church has a school, my mom works for the church doing admissions > for the school.
I have heard that alot of private schools are having problems right now. Frankly, that has alot more to do with the economy than the sex abuse scandals. > Doesn't the Red Cross pay $1 million a year to the CEO or chairperson? I really have no idea, but if you'd like to hear about stealing money from people in the name of god I suspect you'd have a hard time getting to the bottom of that list. I'm sure there are plenty of examples that aren't related to religion too, but man-OH-MAN there are a metric ton in the name of religion. > Churches do a lot of good for the communities weather you donate or > not. The fact that the worshipers use a building to gather rather than > a field shouldn't bother you so much. Certainly, they do some good. You are correct. I also don't really care if someone worships in a field or a building. But neither should you. If the can't afford the building anymore, they also should not mind worshiping in a field. Unless of course it's really about money... > Most charitable contributions are way down because of the economy. The > scandal at the church, which has been going on for what a decade? is > making it worse. So low contributions and high lawsuit payouts has > them very worried about survival. It's not about protecting the 4% of > abusers, it's about saving the 96%. So for all charities it's the economy. For churches it's been going on for a decade now - makes you wonder when it will end. Really I think it will continue (in the RCC specifically) for as long as the church teaches and requires sexual repression in it's clergy. Humans aren't built that way. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:315676 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
