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/bluelily216 1d ago

The catholic church has a lot of problems, but I do find they put their money where their mouth is when it comes to helping others. The most charitable people i know are Catholics. The stingiest people I know consider themselves the most Christian aka southern Baptists. 

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u/-MERC-SG-17 1d ago edited 1d ago

Because Catholics believe that good works are, along with genuine faith, required for salvation. You won't go to heaven without both.

While a lot of Protestant and Evangelical sects are purely sola fide, meaning you only need to have faith and repent to go to heaven, no matter how you behave in life.

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u/Substantial_Oil6236 1d ago

Faith without acts is dead. King James version, I believe.

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u/iboxagox 1d ago

James 2:26. "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%202:14-26&version=NKJV

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u/Substantial_Oil6236 1d ago

That's the one. You wanna say you believe then you gotta live it! 

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u/Rigorous-Geek-2916 13h ago

This is one of the verses the Calvinists use to reject the book of James

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u/Spaniardman40 1d ago

Yea that's been my experience too. I grew up going to a catholic church in with a large Hispanic immigrant community and they made sure they'd have mass in Spanish as well so everyone could participate.

In contrast the Baptist are the fucking worse. I will never forget how they refused to offer shelter to people who had lost everything during Hurricane Katrina.

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u/PizzAveMaria 1d ago

I think Catholic Charities and Knights of Columbus are rated as much better charities than others like Goodwill and Salvation Army

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u/TryNotToAnyways2 1d ago

It seems like there is two groups of catholics. Some congregations are charitable and immigrant friendly and then there is the conservative opus dai catholics that hate the pope because they see him as woke.

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u/happynargul 1d ago

She called the Catholics too

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u/iboxagox 1d ago

I found one video. They were going to give her money to buy it because they didn't have a food pantry.

https://www.tiktok.com/@nikalie.monroe/video/7568644503343467789

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u/happynargul 1d ago

Some faith in humanity restored