• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    So when corrupt preachers rake in tens to hundreds of millions it’s tax-exempt because it’s not a business, but when a pastor actually cares for the needy like their book says to, that’s a crime because it IS a business?

    Fuck that worst of both worlds nonsense! 🤬

      • BorgDrone@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I love it when people pretend to know what “the book” says better than Christians (or anyone else for that matter).

        There’s no pretending. Most christians have never actually read it, and a lot of atheists are atheists exactly because they have.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        The book is a bunch of non-sensical, contradictory fairy tales written and rewritten by a million dudes, a thousand times over, to manipulate others.

        True, but one of the few things it isn’t unclear or downright self-contradictory about is that the main dude said to help the poor and otherwise marginalised people.

        I love it when people pretend to know what “the book” says better than Christians

        As an atheist who’s actually read the damn thing rather than just gotten the perspectives of conservative preachers and politicians, I’m not pretending. I do in fact know better than some so-called Christians what their stupid book says.

        I also follow the more empathetic parts of it better than anyone on the “Christian Right”

    • NovaPrime@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      The D.A. is the one to blame. Sure the zoning laws are shit, but the D.A. has discretion about which cases to bring and pursue. They could easily just move the fuck along like they do with any number of other cases they do in the year, but having worked with a number of these dipsticks in a previous life, I can guarantee you they saw it as an easy win and didn’t expect to get the attention they did. D.A.s are just as bad as police officers when it comes to selective enforcement and application of the law and should be scrutinized much more closely during local elections.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        10 months ago

        D.A.s are just as bad as police officers when it comes to selective enforcement and application of the law

        That’s because they ARE cops. They weren’t originally supposed to be, but they do the exact same thing as cops do: put as many people behind bars or to death as they possibly can regardless of whether or not they’re guilty.

        Just like cops will get funding based on their “solve rate” whether or not they actually got the real culprit every or even MOST times, DAs run for re-election based on their conviction rate, no matter how many miscarriages of justice are counted amongst those "wins’