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With a name like that, you know they're fucking nuts.
I'd be surprised if they said something sensible. Found this plan they have on the article:
"In Jesus name, Amen!" Like it's some form of magic words such as "abracadabra"
That word salad gave me Time Cube flashbacks.
wow that takes me back
Nigerian
Feels like standard scam bait to me
Eh, no need to be racist. If this is a Nigerian church, then we're probably being unfair towards them in this case.
Not racist, but not a fan of any organised religion, as most of them are pretty much money grabbing scams. I was just providing additional context as to provenance - could have been from anywhere and would have had the same response from me. Question becomes: would you have replied the same if I had said it was French?
Bit of a strawman here. Generally, most churches aren't and donate excess money to charity, or possess a historical building which needs to be maintained. My parish didn't even break even for the past three years and had to lay off a few workers. You only hear about the money grabbing scams because you aren't in this world, and that's the news that gets out. "Church raises money for foodbank" isn't really headline news versus this headline.
To answer your other question: people tend to look down on African and Asian cultures thinking that they know better than their "savage" ways. In reality, Nigerians tend to just have a different cultural attitude surrounding homosexuality, and this comment was likely something stupid that originated from said clash of cultures. We can't really say definitively that there are superior cultures, as that goes into racism.
This was such a well thought out comment I'm grateful you made it
Lemmy is so much better than reddit what the heck man lol
Your majesty, as head of the Church of England, perhaps you could engage in a bit less blasphemy.
Using the Lord's Name in vain is blasphemy
Having the word "Church" in their name was a dead give away
as Christopher Hitchens pointed out, putting the word Pastor or Reverend in front if peoples names letss then get away with saying the most horrible, hateful hurtful stuff that wouldn't see then banned on many Lemny instances without being called out and shunned for it. To wit, Hegseth's hate preacher