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15,000 churches could close this year amid religious shift in U.S. (www.axios.com)
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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

providers of food aid, child care and disaster relief.

There is no practical reason preventing those functions being done by secular organizations.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 hours ago

The government should be doing it.

[–] _core@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 hours ago

Or the government

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Agreed. I don't know why it even needs to be said that the obvious solution to this is turning the empty churches into community centers.