Reply #77: Let's see less church building and land purchase. [View All]

[fedupwithbush]

I'm sick of seeing multi-million dollar churches on multiple acres of land being built. The land and the fancy building doesn't help anyone. And what does the lavishness of the church and setting have to do with praying?

My grandma told me early on, even though I was raised as a Baptist, that anywhere you pray is your church. God or whatever higher power you may believe in doesn't give a hoot if it's in church or in your bedroom. I took that to heart and believe it.

Now if those churches would use the money to help people instead of glorify their faith, I'd have some respect for them. But I can't, because I look and see how many families they could have helped by not building that fancy church and buying all that land.

At least if they paid taxes on that property, it would help people by paying for the local services like road maintenance, fire department, police, etc. And it would help with the enormous debt we're now carrying.