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we were trying to set up a soup kitchen, and asked to use their basement and they kicked us out once they learned that we were “political”. I guess that’s more important than feeding people huh?
Oh and the same church (Catholics) built a fence because people using a safe consumption site nearby, the homeless, etc “made parishioners feel unsafe” and then they fought the city when they told them to take it down.
The church won, so it’s still up
I read the article where they interviewed parishioners about it, and one of them said something like “the fence will prevent the homeless from dirtying the lawn” among other things. Just makes my blood boil
There’s nothing like walking into one of those mega churches and wonder how many families could be fed for a year with their expensive decor.
Or the AV equipment. So many of those places have less than ideal feeds because they can just throw money at better equipment but don’t want to pay for professional technicians.
i always question why they even need all of that equipment. i’ve seen churches totally decked out with top-of-the-line mixers, huge PA systems, etc. and it leaves me wondering what the purpose even is. aren’t churches built to have pretty good acoustics? they’re just doing soft rock and sermons, it’s not a fucking metallica concert. just get up there and sing with your acoustic guitar and get down.
There are accessibility reasons why you’d want a mic, especially with churches dominated by older people who are more likely to have hearing problems. But I loved the setup one of my old churches had. There was a room in the back behind windows that had a speaker on the ceiling. There was a single knob that turned it up and down and there was a little radio transmitter with ear piece receivers if anybody wanted that. And then there was a 4 channel mixer up front that plugged into the feed to the back. So for most of the congregation, they’d sit up front and hear everything acoustically. In the back, they’d hear it mostly over the speaker and someone would just sit there and turn the knob up and down as needed. Was it ideal? No. But it was a setup that worked for 30 years straight with only one or two points of failure which rarely failed and were relatively cheap and easy to repair.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
That hasn’t been my experience at all. Protestant churches, sure. But the Catholic church is pretty ingrained and tends to do a lot for the poor. Most leftists are involved with the church in some way.
That makes a ton of sense, honestly. Because all we have are Protestant churches around here
Protestant church my family went to in my (small) hometown had a program partially organized by my grandparents for free weekly community meals and a food bank. Was never religious even as a kid but I volunteered there for 10 years or so; they had hundreds of people through there every week…it was pretty cool ngl. Definitely not the rule from what I’ve experienced though.
Glad to know my church is an exception.
