Reply to Re: UK one of the least religious countries in the World
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Skorn:
It's a corporate world. Churches are businesses like any other these days. A business needs money. If people want to give money to their church, it's up to them. And the church would be extremely stupid not to take this money. It's no different than if fans donated money to Nintendo because they believed their gaming consoles were better than others', and thus wanted their business to thrive. Nobody's forcing you to donate money to the church. It's not like there's a law saying you need to pay them. And asking for donations isn't begging. If Redink put a link to the side of this website saying "Please consider donating money for keeping TDN up and running", would you count that as begging? Because it's not.
I'm not sure where Punisher is getting this idea that people here are being bounced around by the church, and forced to do everything their way, because Finland is one of the most opposite countries of that in the entire world. I've yet to meet a single person from my own church in my entire life who would anyhow bother me. In fact, considering how few religious people there actually are here, I find it extremely surprising that churches are given the slightest bit of attention. It's a nice thing to do, for those few who do hold it important. I guess churches (as in the buildings themselves) do hold kind of an importance to the common person here, but more in a cultural and historical sense. Most people view them more as museums. If they didn't hold that value, a lot of them would've probably been taken down by now.
If you wanna talk about bothering and begging, look no further than Jehovah's Witnesses.
It's a corporate world. Churches are businesses like any other these days. A business needs money. If people want to give money to their church, it's up to them. And the church would be extremely stupid not to take this money. It's no different than if fans donated money to Nintendo because they believed their gaming consoles were better than others', and thus wanted their business to thrive. Nobody's forcing you to donate money to the church. It's not like there's a law saying you need to pay them. And asking for donations isn't begging. If Redink put a link to the side of this website saying "Please consider donating money for keeping TDN up and running", would you count that as begging? Because it's not.
I'm not sure where Punisher is getting this idea that people here are being bounced around by the church, and forced to do everything their way, because Finland is one of the most opposite countries of that in the entire world. I've yet to meet a single person from my own church in my entire life who would anyhow bother me. In fact, considering how few religious people there actually are here, I find it extremely surprising that churches are given the slightest bit of attention. It's a nice thing to do, for those few who do hold it important. I guess churches (as in the buildings themselves) do hold kind of an importance to the common person here, but more in a cultural and historical sense. Most people view them more as museums. If they didn't hold that value, a lot of them would've probably been taken down by now.
If you wanna talk about bothering and begging, look no further than Jehovah's Witnesses.
