• Gazumi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Interesting how news like this doesn’t typically blow up on social media, yet similar for religions with more darker skinned followers typically leads to significant vitriol.

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      The Christian churches probably have trillions in wealth — if you include all the illegal/unreported funds they hold (offshore accounts, etc) — so they have both the reason and finances to fund lobbyists and bot armies to suppress negative news.

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        Germany isn’t even secular. “The law” doesn’t apply to the church, there’s a separate set of laws for them. And the taxpayer funds the church because of some agreement from 200 years ago