Everyone commenting about how great churches are? You’re absolutely delusional. The gross majority of these organizations are bigoted and racist. I grew up in the southern United States and experienced all manner of churches. I don’t care how great your church is. Give me 20 minutes with your congregation and I’ll find the racists and bigots. These assholes promote terrible mental and physical health. They don’t believe women have a right to make family planning decisions and they protect rapists. They push political agendas under the guise of religious belief. Half of them don’t have education past high school.

Religion is a vestigial structure and a hideyhole for the worst parts of humanity.

This is not an exaggeration. I have lived this. I have watched others live through this. The USA will ultimately be destroyed by completely ignorant Christians who are able to fake some semblance of rational thought.

Stop defending these institutions as “for the public good”. Tax them out or existence and let secular / non religious organizations take their place. It is absolutely absurd to pretend Christians, Muslims, Hindus, or whoever are special because of the particular brand of imaginary edicts they subscribe to. None of us are special. We are all just stupid meatbags on a rock.

I commend all the lives saved in the name of God but let’s not pretend or equivocate. Christianity in the USA is a net drain on society and it has no place in a rational conversation. Anyone who thinks, believes, or sells otherwise? You’re a lunatic.