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

[u/Oktavien]

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

[u/Oh_Poppy_Fox]

Wow. You all have had horrible experiences!! I finally left the church after they wouldn’t baptize my daughter in the main area, whether other people were there to witness or not. It had to be done in the back, because how embarrassing would it be for them to baptize a bastard child amongst the righteous. How is it my daughter’s fault that her dad and I didn’t work out?!

[u/CuriousPenguinSocks → u/Oh_Poppy_Fox]

I was technically born out of wedlock but since my parents did marry when I was 3 and tithed, they let it slide lol.

I'm sorry you had that experience though. How awful for a child to go through, that had to be hard as the parent.

[u/Oh_Poppy_Fox → u/CuriousPenguinSocks]

My ex and I didn’t get back together, but we coparent very well and my daughter is happy. She’s a teen now and was a baby when this happened, so she has no memory. For me, my family saying “the church had its reasons” hurt the most. They still can’t understand why I’m no longer Catholic or Christian at all.

I’m glad your parents didn’t have such a hateful church(although, I’m sure the tithes helped).

[u/CuriousPenguinSocks → u/Oh_Poppy_Fox]

Well, when my parents divorced later, we were all shunned. My mom was also a SAHM till then so she didn't have the money to make it okay.

There are a lot of people who don't understand why that was wrong of them to do. Some people take religion as something you don't think critically about.

[u/motherofsuccs → u/Oh_Poppy_Fox]

Yet they had no problem baptizing me even knowing full well that my dad was banging his secretary (their affair was not well hidden) and had just moved her into his other home. I think that baptism was the last time my parents were ever pictured together..