Great let’s do it through secular public means, where it can be done at scale, without dogmatic strings attached, and it can cover everyone and not be an ad hoc patchwork that causes some people to fall through the cracks
Grants to faith based charities are just a backdoor for siphoning public funds to religious groups. We already subsidize their absurdity and disinformation via tax breaks.
George W Bush was right when he said that faith based charities should not be excluded from receiving federal grants just because they’re faith based.
Non faith based charities are still religious too. We just don’t call their dogma “religion”. But that’s what it is.
Why should our publicly funded social safety net encourage belief in absurd bullshit?
Because feeding people isn’t absurd.
Great let’s do it through secular public means, where it can be done at scale, without dogmatic strings attached, and it can cover everyone and not be an ad hoc patchwork that causes some people to fall through the cracks
Grants to faith based charities are just a backdoor for siphoning public funds to religious groups. We already subsidize their absurdity and disinformation via tax breaks.