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Christian food bank’s shelves are empty after pastor rejects supplies from LGBTQ+ allies (www.lgbtqnation.com)

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“To let you know the reason why we’re in this position is because I done some research, I made the phone calls, I talked to the proper people,” said Pastor Alvin Christian in a since-deleted Facebook Live video. “Are y’all tied in or partners with LGBQ, T, whatever? And they said ‘yes.’ I done some more research and found out that they are part of the gay rights movement.”

Pastor Christian runs the God’s Store House Food Bank in Bluefield, West Virginia, which until recently was serving over 800 families daily and 8,000 unique families every month across four Virginia and West Virginia counties.

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[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago

I had been brought around to that view decades ago as a result of red dwarf of all things (clip linked below). I was fortunate to be raised entirely without religion, but it was genuinely helpful to have that perspective as an outsider as well.

Its very sad to me that so many lives are lost or ruined for… a set of books (multiple religions) that aren’t even very good, and which nearly nobody has actually read (then due to illiteracy, now due to, often, illiteracy, but just as often, a complete lack of intellectual curiosity. The book doesn't even need to be mistranslated when nobody actually reads it. Just need a figurehead (priest or such) to tell lies to the credulous congregation, and it achieves much the same.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6HVClB6wPrA