As if the ancient greeks didn’t absolutely rape boys too
Wut…
the
actual
Fuck
I hate this so much that I can’t even think of what to say about it.
- Rape, regardless of gender, is wrong.
- This charity implies rape against women is not wrong.
According to the Bible, Men raping Women isn’t wrong. At least not as long as the father of the victim gets compensated and the two get married.
https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv%3Adeu.22.28-deu.22.29
These organizations are weird as fuck. Raping people is evil, regardless of anything else.
So I looked up the video mentioned in the article. This just sounds like someone who is insane and/or trying to garner attention from religious hysteria. Even after publication, the video mentioned in the article has 397 views and only 7 likes, so it doesn’t seem like anyone really knows who these people are.
It can also be helpful to realize, doomer headlines like this one about nothing-assholes are common on opposite political spectrums too. There are probably some liberally minded feminists who have given horrific takes like “We should just round up every white man born in a red state, and dump them all in a landfill, with no trials.” And as stupid and evil as that is, some news site has probably quoted them to make manosphere centers feel even angrier towards “evil feminists”.
Yep. This is just one of those aspects of the internet era. I’m certain people publicly said far worse than this in every nation, and they were shunned and their words never made it into a printed article. I know far worse claims that have been published on YouTube and also never got an article about them.
Now there is the aspect that this is an organization registered as a charity. I can’t speak for the UK, but in the USA, it’s very easy to form a registered charity organization if you are willing to bind yourself to the limitations of such. It’s not something that a government department head signs off on, or a parliamentary body votes on. It’s usually an accounting operation and a rubber stamp.
Was looking for any kind of context that would somehow make it even slightly less-outrageous than the headline indicated.
It was worse.
slough has a reputation to keep down
Thinking of Betjeman as I read that.
ragebait. the whole website is ragebait.
The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Daniel Centre Church
With a name like that, you know they’re fucking nuts.
Having the word “Church” in their name was a dead give away
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.
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
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?
not a fan of any organised religion, as most of them are pretty much money grabbing scams.
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
Yeahhh, check that dudes hard drives
Dudette’s hard rive, let’s not misgender here. I hear they like that.
England stamp this evangelical shit out now while you can!!!
This warning can’t be dire enough.
Yeah I am the one who made the comment that person was commenting to. I know about evangelical Christians all too well. I am a white boy in the South.
And not even Catholic. I would have lost that bet!
The Catholic Church has an institutional issue with protecting priests that they should not be protecting, but the actual rhetoric that the church puts out is usually fairly reasonable. At least, as reasonable as can be expected from any religious organization.
Was worried it was something actually prominent until I saw the name
The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Daniel Centre Church
Ah, so it’s moreso a church, but a charity because basically every church functions as a charity.
Also of course… The name… Definitely hyper charismatic…
wat
It’s basically like someone said a Facebook comment out loud
I have not read anything on the link but it sounds like:
“Go and rape girls as God intended!”When the Lord your God gives you victory in battle and you take prisoners, you may see among them a beautiful woman that you like and want to marry. Take her to your home, where she will shave her head, cut her fingernails, and change her clothes. She is to stay in your home and mourn for her parents for a month; after that, you may marry her. Later, if you no longer want her, you are to let her go free. Since you forced her to have intercourse with you, you cannot treat her as a slave and sell her.
the old testament has been fulfilled.
Is this what they mean by “the good news?” Sickos.
