Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by freewilly1040 on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:37PM
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If the whole point of an organization is morality, and the organization doesn't do any better in that arena than society at large, I don't see much point in the organization.
On the topic of the treatment of women, you'll note the original assertion was that this was something the church was especially good at, and I pointed out a sexist practice core to the church as currently practiced, not in the dustbin of history.
Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by sethc2 on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:14PM
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Well my guess is you haven’t been to many non evangelicals churches nor looked at how they act or behave.
The church reveres a woman above all other humans save him who was both God and man.
Orphanages were setup by churches. Hospitals, schools, homeless shelters. They do that explicitly because of their beliefs.
As for women being treated poorly that is not something the church introduced, but has practically been done by men since time began. If you read early church history you’d probably realize that your moral basis itself is founded upon the work church did.
If you’re someone who is open minded you should try to hear good arguments from another perspective. I’d recommend Dominion by Tom Holland perhaps - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465093507/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm...
What I’ve found is people who actually don’t believe their opinions strongly avoid books challenging those opinions, while those who do are perfectly willing to be challenged, because they are confident their opinion is the right one.
For example a person who weakly believes in a free market will avoid reading Marx, a person who strongly believes it will. And vice versa for let’s say Ayn Rand.