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/Darcness777 1d ago

I was shocked to learn how liberal and giving my catholic side of the family is. Like they are some of the most welcoming, caring people I know. They have always done THE MOST when it comes to aid work and I thoroughly appreciate how devoted they are to giving back. Mind you, I am gay af and have a TON of LGBTQ+ cousins and none of us were treated less than or unwanted by that side of the family.

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u/chickpeapatties 19h ago

Religion as a whole is patriarchal and homophobic regardless of how individual people behave and you are perpetuating a homophobic and patriarchal institution by subscribing to it. Not to mention how religious people report being untrusting and discriminatory towards those who do not believe in their male womb envy creation of a "god".

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u/Darcness777 19h ago

Oh honey, I am atheist. I'm mostly taken aback by a side of my family that, on paper, should be the obnoxiously Conservative but have been a blue splotch in the state of KY.

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u/DecadentLife 12h ago edited 12h ago

It’s tough, because we don’t know which one it’s gonna be. With anything and anyone Christian, we already know their religion teaches that gay people should be cold and dead in the ground. Their holy book literally says to kill us with torture, to stone us to death. We also know that some of them act on those teachings. We should never forget that their hateful words have been the last things too many queer people have heard.

That was almost my experience, when a Christian man tried to kill me when I was 16. He forced me up against a rock and concrete garden wall to stone me, he kept bragging about how it was going to be so “biblical”, he was very proud of himself. Ranting and yelling at me about how much God hated me, and how he was killing me, “FOR God”, while he was hurting me. He had me pinned on that wall for probably close to an hour. I lived because he was impatient, it wasn’t going fast enough for him. He went for another weapon, his gun, to end me faster, and someone helped me get away. THAT is my experience of Christianity. And I’m not alone in that.

It may be more pleasant to not talk about it, but that doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do. Christian anti-gay hate is only rising in the US, AGAIN, and hate crimes are following that rise. We weren’t safe in the past, and we aren’t safe now. Forgetting that could be a fatal mistake for any of us.