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Author: Lapsody   😊 😞
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Subject: Who's the better Christian?
Date: 11/12/25 11:28 AM
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Who is the better Christian?

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A woman on Tik Tok called churches asking for help feeding her 9-month-old baby.

• Mosques: 100% offered help
• Buddhist Temples: 100% offered help.
• Christian Churches: 27% offered help.

Only 9 of 33 Christian churches said yes -and all 9 were predominantly Black churches.
Love thy neighbor? Depends on the pew.

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A recent viral social experiment on TikTok by a woman namedNikalie Monroe (or @nikalie.monroe) involved calling various religious institutions to see if they would help a woman who said she needed baby formula. The experiment's results, as reported, showed that out of 33 Christian churches called, only 9 (27%) offered help, while a mosque and Buddhist temples reportedly offered assistance 100% of the time. The Christian churches that did offer help were described as being predominantly Black churches.

https://imgur.com/gallery/no-surprises-here-g6bS0I...

I'm a little disappointed. I was hoping our Xtians were better and hope this is an anomaly. So what happened to the RW solution of letting Xtians do all the charity, like SNAP, WIC, etc? Out the window 'cause... mega churches? Did she just call the wrong churches? Perhaps I should be more cynical.
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Subject: Re: Who's the better Christian?
Date: 11/12/25 11:38 AM
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Only 9 of 33 Christian churches said yes -and all 9 were predominantly Black churches.
Love thy neighbor? Depends on the pew.


The starkness of the contrast does surprise me, but only by a little. Unfortunately, many Christian churches talk a good game, but when you dig deeper, their benevolence and sympathies are encapsulated by the expression “Charity begins at home”.

Unfortunately, too often, it ends there.
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Author: Lapsody   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Who's the better Christian?
Date: 11/12/25 12:38 PM
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I looked around and a few of the churches were trying to send her to food pantries that were coordinated with multiple churches, but there were far too many that said they only help church members from what I've read.
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Author: Steve203 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Who's the better Christian?
Date: 11/12/25 1:22 PM
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iirc, Trump's official religious advisor is a proponent of "prosperity theology", meaning that, if you have been a good boy, God will reward you with material goodies. On the other hand, if you are poor, that is your punishment for being bad, somehow. So, seems the takeaway is that "good" people are rich, so don't need help. The people who are struggling must be "bad", and don't deserve help. Doesn't seem to register with them that bad things can happen to good people.

As luck would have it, I mosied over to the theater a couple weeks ago, and saw "Good Fortune", an interesting take on the "Guardian Angel" bit.

Good Fortune (2025) Official Trailer #2 – Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, Keke Palmer, Keanu Reeves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAMkXY2Ja80

Steve
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Subject: Re: Who's the better Christian?
Date: 11/12/25 9:47 PM
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Aaaaannd this showed up-

Joe G @EastEndJoe X.com
Meet MAGA pastor, Steven Anderson, of the Faithful
Word Baptist Church inPhoenix, AZ.

Steven L Anderson @sanderson1611 X.com
I would be pissed if I donated to a church & found out that they were giving the Lord's money to "single mother" whores. I would want it to go to the Lord's work or toward helping godly Christians who are in need. Churches should not be funding fornicators and their bastards.
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Author: wzambon 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Who's the better Christian?
Date: 11/12/25 10:13 PM
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Meet MAGA PSTOR….


I spent 40 years in active ministry as a presbyterian pastor. Loved every minute of it.

But there are days when I’d rather tell people I was a piano player in a whore house.
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Subject: Re: Who's the better Christian?
Date: 11/12/25 10:38 PM
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Steven L Anderson @sanderson1611 X.com
I would be pissed if I donated to a church & found out that they were giving the Lord's money to "single mother" whores. I would want it to go to the Lord's work or toward helping godly Christians who are in need. Churches should not be funding fornicators and their bastards.


Guys like that are almost always projecting.
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Subject: Re: Who's the better Christian?
Date: 11/13/25 12:37 AM
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I spent 40 years in active ministry as a presbyterian pastor. Loved every minute of it.

But there are days when I’d rather tell people I was a piano player in a whore house.


That would be more reputable than most prominent xians. It seems the more tolerant ones are never heard. The ones we commonly hear are mostly a-holes.

At least I haven't heard from Westboro in a while. Despicable people.

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Subject: Re: Who's the better Christian?
Date: 11/13/25 9:54 AM
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It seems the more tolerant ones are never heard. The ones we commonly hear are mostly a-holes.

Flamboyant hucksters are given bigger microphones by the media.

Unfortunately, “ridiculous” sells newspapers and prime time talk shows.
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