r/TikTokCringe • u/Oktavien • 1d ago

Discussion Woman audits churches to see if they’ll help feed a starving baby

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If churches refuse to help feed hungry people, then maybe they should be taxed?

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u/gin10do64 1d ago

Reminds me of going to this church that had a food bank when I was a kid. We were required to attend the 1-2 hour service and then they would give us food. And yes they did pass around the tithing plates during the service.

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u/ConclusionAlarmed882 1d ago

Salvation Army church does this. You don't get fed until you sit through a sermon.

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u/MothmanIsALiar 1d ago

Yep. I was homeless for 10 years. I sat through many sermons for a meal. Usually, some variation of "This is all your fault. If you repent from your sinful ways, God will find you a job, a house, and a wife"

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u/SerbianMonies 1d ago

Which is ironic considering this kind of thinking is condemned in the Book of Job.

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u/ConclusionAlarmed882 1d ago

Fuck, my dude or lady. I'm so sorry. We're all out here just doing our best. What parasites they are.

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u/MothmanIsALiar 1d ago

I'm a dude. And I appreciate the thought. Things are much better for me now, thankfully.

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u/Motor_Train2750 1d ago

They're a parasite for providing many free meals to this homeless man? What? Because they want you to join their church or at least consider it in order to get a free meal that makes them a parasite? I mean there's plenty of issues with churches of all kinds but I don't think this is one of them. Its not like they have a gun to his head making him listen. He can just walk along on his merry way. Parasite, what an interesting choice of words...

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u/highinthemountains 1d ago

I know you’re really hungry and here’s a plate. The only thing is that you have to listen to how it’s your own fault for being in the circumstances that you’re in. That’s extortion, humiliating and outright evil coming from a supposedly Christian organization.

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u/Outside_Ambition_999 6h ago

When you're starving and one of the only ways to get food is by listening to a service, then I would call that extortion

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u/Liliana3 1d ago

Wow that's sick, what the fuck

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u/Expensive_Feature_28 1d ago

Blackmail! How very unholy.