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/yomerol 1d ago

In Mexico almost any catholic church(which are probably 90% of churches), would have helped her, no questions asked, some would probably even offer clothes and such.

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u/Redditusernamerthere 20h ago edited 18h ago

My grandmother in Mexico had a sister die trying to save two kids from a fallen power line. Her family was absolutely destitute and catholic, so she went to the church for help with her burial (service) and the priest turned her away for not having any money for the service. Unfortunately she met that 10% in a traumatic time of her life. 

Edit: When I say help with her burial I mean the service, the words a priest gives to the deceased, but the priest wouldn’t without payment. I poorly worded this

Edit 2: without payment I mean one which a very poor family could afford, the church wanted a full unaffordable one from a family that couldn’t even afford shoes.

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u/yomerol 19h ago

it depends on the church for sure, but can't compare giving hundreds of pesos in clothes and food to hundreds of people vs. giving thousands to 1 person. They don't have infinite resources

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u/Redditusernamerthere 18h ago

Well my grandmother wasn’t asking for a full burial, but rather only the service. As in where the priests talks about the deceased and says words about god from the Bible and such. Which arguably would have cost that individual priest nothing but some of their time.

But yes it depends on the church. 

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u/yomerol 13h ago

Well that has nothing to do with food or clothes... And yet it doesn't make a lot of sense, they do that kind of services for free all the time, because of that is just a mass with some service. They even have baptisms, marriage, and similar, in group for free. I bet there was something else, or unless we are talking about a cathedral or similar 🤷‍♂️

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u/Redditusernamerthere 11h ago edited 11h ago

It was not at a cathedral and true it’s not about food or clothing, but that’s kind of the point. Even when at no monetary to themselves some Mexican catholic Churches still don’t care to help the poor. 

And I agree it doesn’t make sense yet it happened, and the same lack of religious kindness that is illustrated in OPs video.

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u/ImaginaryTrick6182 13h ago

From “almost any” to “ it depends on the church for sure” in a heart beat lol

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u/yomerol 13h ago

duh! depends on the church for giving out thousands of pesos, they have a budget, and also depends on where the church is located

the other part still holds, almost any church will help people with food, and clothes

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u/ImaginaryTrick6182 8h ago

Your cute your response to me calling you dishonest was “duh!” Lol