If you were one of those people being persecuted by your church, you wouldn't be taking this so lightly. For close to 2,000 years Jews were persecuted by your church because of this insane belief that people were somehow responsible for events that took place before they were born. It wasn't until 1965 that your church changed its position and acknowledged that all Jews, living and dead, weren't responsible for the death of Jesus. Today your church's targets are gays, abortion clinics, and sexually active women who don't want to have children. Your church opposes gay marriage and every law and proposed law granting gays basic rights. Your church has expelled children from its schools, because their parents were in same-sex marriages. Your church consistently opposes contraception for all women, as well as abortions. Abortion providers have even been murdered by members of your church.
If you want to sign up for the persecution squad, just join any anti-abortion organization that protests at abortion clinics.
Your church doesn't have just a few bad apples. Your entire church hierarchy has been protecting and defending priests who have sexually abused children, and this continues to this day. In Pennsylvania alone, your church covered up abuse by more than 300 priests.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/u...nsylvania.html
In this country, a significant amount of funding for your church's charitable organizations comes from the government, while a significant amount of donations your church receives, goes to defending priests who have sexually abused children. In many cases, your church's policies have made things worse for domestic abuse victims, rather than better, by opposing divorce. I remember reading an article about the horrible situation so many women in Ireland were in, because divorce was prohibited. I read of women going to nuns or priests asking for help with domestic abuse, because they could not divorce their husband, and their response was, "that's a cross you'll have to bear". It wasn't until 1995 that divorce became legal in Ireland. Contraception was also outlawed in Ireland, until fairly recently.
The leading cause of death for young women around the world is illegal abortion. Your church adamantly opposes making abortions safe and legal, which could save the lives of so many young women, as well as contraception, which could greatly reduce the number of women getting abortions. Not only does your church oppose contraception to prevent unwanted pregnancies, your church opposes the use of condoms to prevent AIDS. Your church would rather see more people die from AIDS, than have people use condoms to prevent it.
The harm caused by your church's many cruel policies and beliefs far outweighs any good they do. Donating to secular charities who don't place their religious beliefs above the lives of others would do far more good than donating churches who are more concerned about imposing their beliefs on others than actually helping them.
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