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applegrove

(133,085 posts)
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 10:36 PM Oct 2025

Churches have better step up to help people on SNAP.

Wealthy christian churches need to be out in their communities actively helping those who will be starving. Any church that fails to do so will have proven that they are not charitable orgs, & certsinly not followers of Jesus if they claim to be Christian, & should be reclassified as a corporations.

Miranda 🖤🤍💜 (@doomscroling.bsky.social) 2025-10-26T15:59:31.881Z
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Churches have better step up to help people on SNAP. (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2025 OP
Christian churches voted for Trump. SamKnause Oct 2025 #1
They should be shamed into opening soup kitchens. applegrove Oct 2025 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author ForgedCrank Oct 2025 #5
You're painting with a big brush 🤔 demosincebirth Oct 2025 #6
The church I play the organ for oberle Oct 2025 #3
Yes. Like that. applegrove Oct 2025 #4
Churches need to pay taxes BeerBarrelPolka Oct 2025 #7

SamKnause

(14,945 posts)
1. Christian churches voted for Trump.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 11:09 PM
Oct 2025

They got what they voted for.

Why would they want to help anyone ???

All they cared about was ending abortion, stopping transgender people, and getting
undocumented immigrants out of the country.

They are a huge part of the problem, they are not the solution.

They support Christian Nationalism.

applegrove

(133,085 posts)
2. They should be shamed into opening soup kitchens.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 11:19 PM
Oct 2025

I'll never forget being at Saint Eustache in Paris. It is a beautiful church that gives Notre Dame a run for its money in the stunning department. See link below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Eustache,_Paris

I went there in December 1995 and they had a soup kitchen on the front steps of this tourist destination. I was impressed.

Response to SamKnause (Reply #1)

oberle

(409 posts)
3. The church I play the organ for
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 11:24 PM
Oct 2025

always collects food every week. It's an interfaith chapel in a senior living situation. Frequently people who live here need help.

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