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Edited on Tue Aug-01-06 10:33 PM by RoyGBiv
I went off on a rant at a family gathering this past weekend and will probably be actively uninvited from any future gatherings because of it.
It started with a conversation my psycho cousin was having with her husband about the rapture. I was mostly ignoring them, but I couldn't help but hear a bit about how they really shouldn't worry too much about the $47,000 loan their church had secured to do some building improvements, i.e. the rapture was going to happen soon, so they wouldn't really have to pay it back, and this logic was apparently used to convince the elders in the church to get the loan.
I exploded. "You got $47,000 dollars you have no intention of paying back to build another piece on that enormous monstrosity you call a church (HUGE building), and every day when you pass by that church you see homeless people, starving people, starving *kids* sitting at that intersection near where your church is, and all you have time to worry about is whether the rapture will come soon enough for you not to have to pay back the bank for money you borrowed to build something no one really needs ... I AM SICK OF YOU." And then I got nasty. "Just how deep is your hypocrisy? How many poor people could you feed with $47,000? If you don't have to pay it back anyway, if the rapture is going to take away that responsibility from you, just why didn't you ask for more and *feed* some people with it???"
Damn...getting worked up all over again.
I give to that fund as well. It's insane what is taking place.
On a related note, there's a charitable group in OKC (can't recall the name right now ... have it written down at work) that helps people who can't pay their utility bills. I talked to a guy last week who is one of the people that goes around writing out the checks, and he told me that the requests for help had doubled this year, and it's all about electric bills ... or electric bills that can't be paid because of gasoline bills. He was quite depressed, said they're out of money basically during a time when they're typically building their reserves in preparation for winter.
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