{"id":288,"date":"2025-12-12T12:34:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:03:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:03:41","slug":"a-lady-called-churches-asking-for-food-for-her-hungry-baby-and-i-experienced-the-exact-same-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/2025\/12\/12\/a-lady-called-churches-asking-for-food-for-her-hungry-baby-and-i-experienced-the-exact-same-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"A lady called churches asking for food for her hungry baby, and I experienced the exact same thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

And it turned out exactly how you thought it would. They turned her down. Or pawned her off. Or made excuses. And the ones that did respond positively? A mosque. An African American church. And so on.<\/a> The mega churches that rake in millions in tithes and donations? Nothing or given the runaround. Or told to go ask for government help<\/a>, a hilarious comment from people who 98% of the time decry government healthcare and food programs, even for children. I promise you, churches are not in the business of improving lives, in fact, the worse people’s lives are, the better they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I’ll tell you what. That was the exact same experience I had, except that these people were supposed to be my friends<\/strong>. These were people I grew up with, and when I lowered myself to ask for help with food on facebook, because I was literally starving, and not a single so-called “Christian” stepped up to even offer moral support, much less what I really needed–a meal. And I see their photos all the time–I promise you, they are not missing meals. And not that religious affiliation matters, but the people that helped me were a muslim and some religiously non-affiliated people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had given churches the benefit of the doubt as to their actually offering some sort of positivity to America, but every day I’m convinced more and more of the opposite: 1) That they simply reinforce what people already believe, having abandoned much of what the Bible actually teaches 2) That they offer no substantive benefit to society (helping the poor, comforting widows, fighting for the little guy) 3) That they are a net negative to society based on their pervasive and life-altering behavior towards LGBT children, and children in general, based on their repeated coverups of child abuse, molestation, and sexual assault if they are part of the group<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that last point shows complete moral bankruptcy. If you’re willing to allow children to be abused or even worse, cover it up, in order to increase your power, you are not and should not be a moral arbiter of anything. You should not enjoy tax-exempt status. You should not enjoy any other privileges other than those afforded to regular orgs, and probably should not enjoy any favored status whatsoever. No one really cares if people believe in talking snakes, but unless you’re positively contributing to society for all people, then we should stop deferring to them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And it turned out exactly how you thought it would. They turned her down. Or pawned her off. Or made excuses. And the ones that did respond positively? A mosque. An African American church. And so on. The mega churches that rake in millions in tithes and donations? Nothing or given the runaround. Or told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}