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  • ewe@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some notable scams in history that went unnoticed for so long?
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    1 year ago

    Considering giving to any church 501©(3) themselves are considered “charitable donations” when it comes to taxes, this rings a little hollow. If you consider a church as a charity itself, and those churches are soliciting donations every week in services, of course you’re going to see higher charitable giving from areas with a lot of churches/religious. That said, my gripe is not with religious based charities, it’s with churches. Salvation Army can continue to do what it does, religious affiliated childrens hospitals, etc. The amount of money that is spent on congregations is just a waste and it’s a shame.

    ~signed, an atheist (ex)reddit cool guy

  • ewe@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some notable scams in history that went unnoticed for so long?English
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    1 year ago

    Just imagine what could have been done in the last 300 years if every dollar that was donated to churches went to some other cause, or back into the pockets of the masses. There is an immense amount of wealth that is trapped in the collective real estate, bank accounts, etc owned by churches. I’m not even talking about megachurches or the mormon’s giant stack of cash, just mom’n’pop little parishes that are everywhere across the US.

    If ALL that money was still kicking around in the economy and in the pockets of people to spend on real things, building real businesses, etc…we’d be way better off.

    Always makes me sad when I visit my in-laws who live in a particularly bible thumpy area and you go and there are spots there where churches outnumber normal businesses. It seems like it’s just a huge drain on the local economy devoting that much money into propping up churches of various kinds…

  • ewe@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•From the Vault
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    1 year ago

    My wife is a little this way. Doesn’t draw her in. My son and I are bonding over his first playthrough of Zelda: A Link to the Past. He is way into it and I get to come in and beat the hard parts so he thinks I’m awesome. My wife is fine with it because it’s good father/son bonding time. I expect him to start schooling me any day now.

  • ewe@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•I really want to like LemmyEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I try to share this to help people get it…

    GUIDE:

    • don’t go to a community on the server that it’s on (e.g. https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy) [NO login]

    • do go to a community on the server you’re on (e.g. https://lemmy.one/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml) [YES login!]

    everything else works the same using the instance-to-instance federation, but only as long as you use YOUR lemmy instance, NOT the one that the Community lives on.

    When linking to a community from within a lemmy post or comment, use this format:

    • [Winnipeg Jets](/c/winnipegjets@lemmy.world) >>begets>> Winnipeg Jets

    (Note: this works really well on the website, but currently my app (Jerboa) crashes for these links. I think this is a bug that will be fixed.)

  • ewe@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Are we using Lemmy correctly?
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    1 year ago

    Exactly. Also, people might not want their handle being associated with a specific niche hobby they have, though they might be there a lot/all the time (e.g. I don’t want to be “ewe@hentainsfw”, but I sure as shit am going to be spending a lot of time there).

    I kind of feel like it would be best if we had some “user” instances that are nice and always up and most of the communities lived on “community” instances either grouped or just spread out. That way if any single community gets too big on an instance, it doesn’t necessarily bog a bunch of users down as well (e.g. all the users on lemmy.ml that are hamstrung by being on the overloaded hardware on that instance).