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IDew ,

I don’t at all understand churches advertising… Maybe because of my European ass? To my knowledge churches are not about profit? I get that you want to announce your service times and such, but put that in a small column in a newspaper for the ones interested or something lol

Mugly12 ,

I imagine it’s a form of evangelism. Like, if they can convince someone to attend church from the ad then that is the same as saving their soul and gets them points in God’s book (or so they tell people when in reality money is the goal).

GenderNeutralBro ,

In America, all things are about profit.

riodoro1 ,

In Europe we are sadly switching to that attitude too.

ICastFist ,
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USA gotta export its worse ideas abroad, after all. For-profit churches, flat earth, antivaxx

anachronist ,

USA gotta export its worse ideas abroad, after all. For-profit churches, flat earth, antivaxx

More like someone in Europe realizing that they could import something from America and it’d catch on like an invasive plant species with no local ecological resistance.

Serinus ,

America didn’t invent any of that.

marcos ,

AFAIK, they did invent the modern flat-Earthism. Europe designed a straw-men to use as racist propaganda to say the people on their colonies are stupid, but it was a group at the US that said “yes, that’s us, and we are proud of it!”

Antivax was invented everywhere, again and again, so,maybe they get a half point for it too.

BakerBagel ,

Where do you think we got the idea from?

QuantumSparkles ,

They want to convince you to come to their church so you can donate to their church which is totally not profit it is for the lord trust me it’s not sweet delicious tax-exempt profit mmmm

half ,

The church in the ad is particularly harmful. I had to fight to get out of it, and only after they took 10% of my income for years and trafficked me. They want money, power, and control, not increased numbers at their services.

marcos ,

and trafficked me

There’s a serious “wait, what?!?” here. The church sells slaves?

half ,

I was threatened by local leaders and family if I didn’t go on a 2 year mission in another country, then when I got there, they:

  • took my passport immediately and locked it in a building I couldn’t access
  • required 12 to 16 hours of work a day, with discipline if productivity dropped
  • refused to provide adequate food or medical care
  • restricted my communication with my family
  • assigned me a companion to surveil me 24/7 and report disobedience to leadership (and assigned me to surveil someone else)
  • disciplined me when I was physically and sexually assaulted by other missionaries

I didn’t want to call it trafficking for a long time. I figured maybe God just had a weird way of doing things. But my spouse works at a recovery center for survivors of violence (including trafficking) and helped me realize that’s what it was.

A pretty big misconception is that trafficking has to look like selling slaves, and I agree that’s an egregious thing, but it can be a lot more broad than that.

There are a lot of resources at humantraffickinghotline.org/en if you’re curious. My mission experience checked just about every box for labor trafficking, and I’ve heard very similar stories from a lot of other people who have been missionaries.

marcos ,

Yep, sounds like slavery. Taking your passport away would already be enough.

usualsuspect191 ,

They might be talking about a mission? Personally wouldn’t call that trafficking, but it can be pretty brutal depending on the mission

marcos ,

What the GP describes looks exactly like trafficking.

Chuymatt ,

White and delightsum.

Also, gotta increase their 35billion in holdings to make the elders more obscenely rich.

davel ,
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The gods demand more believers to increase their mana.

The_v ,

That’s an ad for Mormons. The Mormons are a corporation disguised as a church that has gained extreme wealth. They own a huge real estate empire, universities, and farms plus over a hundred billion in one investment fund.

Thy have been caught numerous times breaking all sorts of financial laws but because of their status as a church it’s hidden.

For the Mormons it’s all about profit and hoarding wealth.

Frog ,

Imagine both of them kneeling down, looking up at you, then they open their mouth and stick out their tongues, maintainin eye contact. They are ready to receive the Horny Cum, I mean the Holy Communion.

Dirk ,
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To eat the flesh!

HelixDab2 ,

This is my body, this is my blood. Happy are they who come to

feedum_sneedson ,

If you’d just said Holy Communion and left it at that, it would have been a reasonable bit.

classic ,

Didn't trust the audience, ruined the bit

ryannathans ,

I don’t get it

thejoker954 ,

The ladies in the church ad look familiar to porn stars? I dont know about the blonde, but the other lady looks similar to Alina Lopez to me.

synapse1278 ,
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I can’t say I understand what’s written there at all, but if there are churos, I’m in!

gnomesaiyan ,
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Boomers are dying off, gotta get those numbers back up somehow.

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