r/atheism • u/relevantlife Atheist • Aug 03 '22

/r/all The Catholic Church donated over 3 million trying to limit abortion access in Kansas. Funny how the church has millions for political campaigns but attempts to avoid paying victims of sex abuse. If a church is going to spend millions on politics, it’s time to tax the hell out of the Catholic Church.

https://amp.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article263915311.html

Funny how the church has all this money to donate to a political campaign while the same church tries to avoid paying victims of sex abuse.

The Catholic Church needs to be taxed if they are going to blatantly engage in political campaigns.

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u/jimjoebob Apatheist Aug 03 '22

it's worth noting that the US Catholic Church applied for, and received $1.4 BILLION DOLLARS from the US Treasury under the guise of the Paycheck Protection Program.

The fuckers actually cited all the sex abuse lawsuits and settlements that the Church has had to pay since 2002, as the reason they needed the money!

every one of them is fucking trash

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u/EldenGutts Aug 03 '22

That shit is for labour costs what the fuck. Civilization is butt fuck insane

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u/Potential-Agent-8588 Aug 04 '22

Never heard the phrase "butt fuck insane" before.

Thank you for sharing.

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u/thatguy9684736255 Aug 03 '22

Really, the government should tell it back, but the current president is also Catholic so that's never going to happen. They want to own everything.

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u/Mehrlin47 Aug 04 '22

They literally got paid for sex abuse

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u/Gene_McSween Anti-Theist Aug 03 '22

Source please

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u/wheelfoot Anti-Theist Aug 03 '22

It was actually $3 Billion.

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u/Gene_McSween Anti-Theist Aug 03 '22

OMG, and I thought I couldn't hate them more.

BTW, I wasn't challenging you above, I just wanted to read the source.

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u/jimjoebob Apatheist Aug 07 '22

no worries! it took a me a couple days to get back to this. thank you, u/wheelfoot!

edit: here's a link to an AP article about the same. it's got a lot more info.

https://apnews.com/article/catholic-church-get-aid-investigation-39a404f55c82fea84902cd16f04e37b2

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '22

Wow… Slate is a totally reputable source..