It’s no coincidence that the Cabal has begun persecuting churches from the moment they enacted their 2020 globo-Coup. I’ve had time to warm up to the idea… me not being welcome in a church anymore… and I’m ready to propose a mutually beneficial program of Christian persecution & marginalization.
Pennsylvania Town Threatens Churches With $500 Fines for Providing Free Meals, Counseling Services
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By Christian Britschgi, 7 July 2022
Two Philadelphia-area churches have come under fire from local zoning officials, who say their free meal services, mental health counseling, and monthly pantries aren’t allowed on their properties and will have to stop or else they risk fines.
In early June, Pottstown staff sent letters to Christ Episcopal Church and Mission First, saying that this charitable work went beyond the allowable activities for churches in the borough’s Downtown zoning district.
“I am writing this letter with compassion for those affected by the COVID pandemic and with gratitude to residents who’ve provided aid to those in need throughout that period,” wrote Pottstown Zoning Officer Winter Stokes in a letter to one of the churches obtained by WHYY, which first reported the story. “However, as the Zoning Officer, I must enforce the zoning code.”
Stokes’ letters specifically lists regular provision of mental health counseling to families, weekly buffet meals, and the distribution of soap, razors, toothbrushes, and other essential items as disallowed uses.
This is an appropriate use of zoning laws. These churches are subsidizing homelessness and related ills, with the direct result that their neighborhoods are… not exactly gentrifying, shall we say. Neither are they offering God to those unwashed masses. Zoning laws exist so that the concept of “neighborhoods” can exist despite individual whims, so this interference is appropriate from the viewpoints of both Christ and State.
But more could be done.
My proposal: outlaw ALL acts of religious charity. Any church that wants to help the poor, can pay into government welfare programs and help the poor that way. Your benefit: most churches will spontaneously disband in order to volunteer all their time and money at your welfare offices. My benefit: those false churches will no longer disgrace the name of Christ with their existence.
It is not the purpose of the church to be a privately operated welfare office. The church’s duty is to God, not to “the poor”, “the undocumented” or God help us, “the AIDS victims”. Sometimes helping outsiders can make God look desirable, and then it is okay, but charity is an optional function of the church. Frankly, I doubt the depth of a man’s faith if its foundation is free gibs.
The church remaining open, despite all threats, in order to offer God to society and assistance to its members, is mandatory. Banning church-as-a-means-to-charity would do much to ensure that remaining churches get their priorities straight. Fewer distractions, know what I mean?
Thus, these welfare-offices-for-Jeebus can be looted by government for the glory of God. Win-win!
The two churches can either apply for a zoning variance—which requires going before the borough’s Zoning Hearing Board—or stop the disallowed charitable work. Failure to do either of those things could result in the churches being hit with $500 fines for every day they’re out of compliance.
“It was an absolute surprise when we got this letter,” says Dennis Coleman, the deacon of Christ Episcopal Church. He says that his church has been providing meals and an “essentials” pantry for years without incident.
“We’ve been doing the one meal a week for as long as anyone can remember,” which typically feeds about 60 people, Coleman says. The church also runs a “Last Week of the Month” program that provides people with food, essential items, or even assistance in paying gas and electric bills.
Throwing money at peoples’ problems, eh? We already have an organization for that. It’s not us legacy white men who need that kind of assistance, generally speaking. It’s the parasites content to abuse the system instead of doing work as a holy service.
“We can’t get involved in politics” cries the Church, then they cooperate with the government crushing the middle class out of existence. AFTER we can’t afford a month’s living with a month’s work, the Church will courageously show up to help us out… having silently waited through the period when we were struggling to not fall that far in the first place.
Christ Episcopal Church in Pottstown and the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania both hired attorneys after receiving the letter from the borough and are trying to negotiate a solution that will let the church continue its longstanding charitable work.
Here, we see a church trying to litigate against the State for the opportunity to continue showering freebies on migrants & homeless. That’s how important offering free gibs to outsiders is to them. Hence my suggestion that they can be easily ended as a church simply be requiring them to become State agents to continue what they’re doing.
Think of all the Crosses you could tear down, bureaucrats!
Me, I remember Jesus hanging out mostly with the gainfully employed. When He fed those thousands, He did so in order to continue teaching them. Not so they would become dependent on His handouts for survival.
REAL charity is when the person you’re helping doesn’t need help anymore. Jesus at the healing pool, yes? The one guy He healed didn’t need help anymore… and then Jesus continued the work of God instead of setting up a hospital tent for the other invalids. A stark reminder that the work of God is for God’s benefit, not humanity’s benefit.
Coleman tells Reason that his church has no intention of stopping its activities or applying for a variance.
“We would need a variance to ask permission to do what Jesus calls us to do. And we’re not in the mood to ask permission to do what we’ve always done or what we’re commanded to do,” he says.
Priggy Coleman would make an excellent bureaucrat. Such arrogant self-righteousness! He’s even begging for the State to come and get him!
Churches’ charitable activities often don’t fit neatly into commercial or residential categories defined by municipal zoning codes. That makes them occasional targets of code enforcement.
We have this opportunity for a coordinated Christ-Satan attack upon the Christian church. Let the false shepherds reveal their spots and the true shepherds get their priorities straight.
Reason has covered cases of an Oregon church’s soup kitchen being prohibited by its residential zoning and a New York church’s cold weather shelter being prohibited by its commercial zoning.
I can add Malibu, California to that list of examples. It’s a mountainous enclave near Los Angeles that was a nice place to live (besides brushfires). Then the Episcopals or whoever put in a bus stop and offered free meals & such to everybody arriving. The homeless population exploded and along with them, drugs, vandalism and petty crime. Jesus must have been proud to be associated with that!
“People come in for a meal, or come into the pantry, it’s an opportunity to get to know folks and journey along with them,” says Coleman. “Everything in our pantry, and our meals, good folks donate to that. People want to support this.”
What about God? How many of those indigents have made strong & lasting decisions to follow Christ as a result of these charitable efforts? Has Coleman even checked, or does he just keep moving product like the house of God is a Costco for Marx?
Most churches today are so spiritually void that they cannot even see the growing wickedness that has already past the point of full moral inversion. Priggy Coleman is himself inverted… courageously defying local government in order to subsidize as many social parasites as he can in devotion to God.
God, who wrote in His book “if a man does not work then he shall not eat”. Maybe his church could help men get jobs? While teaching its women how to stretch her husband’s dollar? Instead of gibs to ghetto Ratchets who can’t keep to a budget? This is Philadelphia we’re talking about, after all, not the honestly-poor Appalachians who would rather have those factory jobs than charity.
Any church that thinks that the main spiritual problem in America today is not enough resources for the poor needs to die, and letting the State vultures profit off the carcass is a reasonable price to pay for its disposal. The real spiritual problem is that people must be taught to recognize Evil and then be organized against it, and I would love to be part of a church doing that.
Maybe when all the fakes are dead, I’ll be able to notice one.
Sometimes helping outsiders can make God look desirable, and then it is okay, but charity is an optional function of the church.
Charity within the church should be directed first and foremost toward fellow Christians in need. Of course this is where churchian franchises eoutinely and consistently fail, because there’s no virtue signaling power in helping one’s brothers in Christ (to the extent that false Christians/churchians even have any). “Helping” the homeless enables churchians to pander to the secular social powers that are their real Gods, as well as gives them an excuse to avoid preaching the Gospel that they don’t really believe in anyway.
Bolsheviks gonna Bolshevik.
A favorite stolen from the internet artwork shows a priest with a Tommy gun Chicago typewriter blasting while in full garb.
Van Helsing sends some bullets for the sporky show.
This remains a sore topic for me because in my teen years my father’s job was outsourced to overseas and he was replaced by foreigners several times at subsequent jobs such that he was unemployed for the last 20+ years of raising his children. He was industrious and hard-working and had several businesses that kept the family fed for a few years, but ultimately his businesses went under. During all the years he was struggling to support his family there were several business executives and technical managers in his field in our congregation, but despite knowing that he was struggling to make ends meet no one offered him so much as an interview for a job. Over the years a few handouts were offered, but he always declined because he had a genuine work ethic and really wanted a job, not a handout. He never accepted any government welfare either. During that time period my sisters became radical feminists, with the support of many of the church women and men. A common argument was that they could never trust a man to provide for them, citing my father’s struggles to provide for his family. I came to realize that most churches would prefer to perpetuate and create problems for families rather than try to find genuine long-term solutions for those problems. I place much of the blame for the disintegration of my father’s family on the lack of useful support by those at church who could have easily helped, and those who used his circumstances to undermine his family.
Altruism is a sin.
“But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” – 1 Tm 5:8
These were no more churches than social clubs. A man, able and willing, who is denied by those with means within his family, his congregation, does not bear the guilt. Your father was not being tested, the family and congregation were.
And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of Mine, you did it for Me.’ – Mt 25:40
Let your soul be at peace. Your father ran his race with success, your family and congregation failed.
The mega-church we were attending knew what my husband had done and was doing. They knew he chose to leave us and file for divorce. Yet they treated my young daughters and myself so terribly that I decided to pull us out of church. We tried several other churches and denominations, and then I decided that I didn’t want my daughters to equate church people with God. They are 22 and 24, now, and have never turned away from Holy God. But they did not grow up attending church, because there wasn’t a church we tried that cared. Even now, just the thought of attending a church service can give me a panic attack. I don’t trust them. I don’t trust the preacher or the elders or the leaders. And when I’ve researched churches in my area and find one whose faith statements I agree with, I search further and find women in leadership over men. Ugh.
Right after he left, I was attending a sunday school class led by the Director of Home Missions and the Director of Foreign Missions for the church, and everyone in the class actively participated in local, national, and international mission trips. I liked their teaching. Christmas was coming up, and they wanted to buy my girls toys. They didn’t need anything as I had been gathering things along the way during the year, but we didn’t have anyplace to go, no one to share the day with. When one of the teachers called and offered to buy my girls toys, I shared this with him. He hesitated and said he’d have to get back with me. Sometime later he called and told me sorry, but no one was able to invite us over for Christmas dinner. They didn’t even bring us a meal.
“Even now, just the thought of attending a church service can give me a panic attack.”
I’m the snoozer type myself, when circumstance compels me to attend. Air conditioning on a hot day is the most one can reasonably expect from a modern church box.
The Church doesn’t even care that it has lost our trust.