Re: To little, to late

RedFox wrote:
> In article <gH9li.9726$Rw1.2634@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Rod"
> <kc0oeb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> "Vernono O" <Here @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>> news:46950114$0$6666$882e0bbb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Either you are a liar or all your friends and relatives are grossly 
>>> stupid.
>>>
>>> Take your pick.  There are no other choices.
>>   Where are you at son of a ***** ??
>>
>>   Rod 
> 
> I'd confirm much of what you say
> 
> Here in Australia one of the largest Churches - and the owners of a vast
> amount of real estate - is the "Uniting Church" - formed by combining
most
> of the Methodist Presbytarians and Congregational churches
> 
> Irrespective of the manner in which property has been donated to the
> churches and of the aims of the benefactors this church has been
disposing
> of its property in what is often a completely unthinking and unfeeling
> manner with respect to the communities in which that property - often
land
> - is found.
> 
> The Church is quite brutal in its pursuit of mammon - often breaching
its
> own foundation charter of which they are the sole effective "regulator".

> It not only uses its clout to rezone the land it sells - to maximise
> profits it also sells to such as the "Hare Khrishnas."  Both items are
> aguably forbidden by the charter.  And of course they receive tax
> exemption for their deals
> 
> The Head of its Finance and Property Department even became the church
> head - the "Moderator" as it is called.  With this, the church as an
> organisation effectively ceased to be a spiritually based entity and
> became a property group - part of the informal network of property
dealing
> that amongst other things turnsa blind  eye to the use of proerty
> investment to launder criminal funds and drug money
> 
> The Finance and Property department is quite large, having executive
> offices in the City centres. The money realised by selling the churches 
> birthright - its "mess of potage" as the Bible puts it - will indeed be
> swallowed up in paying exorbitant church salaries - and of course this
> practice meets with the approval of the churches business executives in
> all areas - The poor however get SOUP.  I'd fling it back in their faces
-
> however poor I was. How dare they! What hypocrisy
> 
> It is sad for the churches, and sad for the communities.  Christianity
has
> become a decadent capitalist venture where once it set spiritual
example. 
> As Christianity strangles itself in a refusal to reform the property
> barons are moving in to harvest the assetts
> 
> Never since the time of Henry the Eighth was such a "dissolution" in
> progress and this time it is the churches themselves. through "property
> executives" that are doing it. Oh and don't worry the executives don't
> forget to go to services on sunday to thank God for his bounty so they
> will still go to Heaven
> 
> My advice - give the bastards NOTHING - put only pennies in the
collection
> plates until the churches throw these business executives out on their
ear
> and reclaim thir land and asetts for proper use.

   You have no idea how reassuring it is to hear those words.....

    Thank You !

    Rod