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[–] wibble@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nigerian

Feels like standard scam bait to me

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Eh, no need to be racist. If this is a Nigerian church, then we're probably being unfair towards them in this case.

[–] wibble@reddthat.com 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Not racist, but not a fan of any organised religion, as most of them are pretty much money grabbing scams. I was just providing additional context as to provenance - could have been from anywhere and would have had the same response from me. Question becomes: would you have replied the same if I had said it was French?

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

not a fan of any organised religion, as most of them are pretty much money grabbing scams.

Bit of a strawman here. Generally, most churches aren't and donate excess money to charity, or possess a historical building which needs to be maintained. My parish didn't even break even for the past three years and had to lay off a few workers. You only hear about the money grabbing scams because you aren't in this world, and that's the news that gets out. "Church raises money for foodbank" isn't really headline news versus this headline.

To answer your other question: people tend to look down on African and Asian cultures thinking that they know better than their "savage" ways. In reality, Nigerians tend to just have a different cultural attitude surrounding homosexuality, and this comment was likely something stupid that originated from said clash of cultures. We can't really say definitively that there are superior cultures, as that goes into racism.

This was such a well thought out comment I'm grateful you made it

Lemmy is so much better than reddit what the heck man lol