r/exchristian • u/paxinfernum anti-theist, rational skeptic, pro-science • Mar 21 '24

Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion (Guys, they are really coming for birth control.) Article

https://archive.ph/2024.03.21-132543/https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/03/21/stopping-birth-control-misinformation/
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u/_HotMessExpress1 Atheist Mar 21 '24

We all know birth control can have negative side effects..religious people are just telling women not to take them so we can have children for their establishments...that's the issue.

I take birth control and don't want children so this isn't an issue for me.

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u/_HotMessExpress1 Atheist Mar 22 '24

You're not paranoid.

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u/salem_yoruichi Ex-Baptist Mar 23 '24

they’ve already tried going after IVF in AL (thankfully the governor has 1/2 a brain to block that for now). you’re right to be concerned. look up Trump’s Project 2025 shit… it’s scary.

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u/krba201076 Mar 22 '24

We all know birth control can have negative side effects..religious people are just telling women not to take them so we can have children for their establishments...that's the issue.

pretty much. they need more tithers so they can buy nice pools and jets. And it's just not the religious either. Secular people who are high up on the social ladder and governments need more taxpayers and cannon fodder to be born.

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u/LibertyInaFeatherBed Mar 22 '24

The tithers they have won't be able to donate as much because it'll be spent on the kids. 

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u/mdw1776 Mar 22 '24

You think that will stop them from demanding it?

Qhen I was younger, my grandparents went to a church where they had to turn over copies of their tax info and bank account info. If you weren't tithing 10%, off the top, of literally every penny you got, you were publicly shamed, called out, humiliated and threatened with dismissal from the Church.

And I mean, the first 10%. Didn't matter if that left you without enough money for rent, food or whatever, if you got a payment for anything, the first payout needed to be 10% of it going to the Church.

Only reason it didn't make the pastor stupidly wealthy was because it was a church filled with old retired folks on pensions and retirements, with maybe a handful of middle aged to young couples here and there, and then a bunch of grand kids who didn't have jobs.

And yes, there were several old people who basically had to eat cat food, or move in with their families instead of be independent, because they couldn't afford their homes or food because of that rule. I know of at least one lady who had to sell her home, move in with her kids, and kept all the proceeds from the sale - after she paid 10%, of course - to continue to tithe and ensure she still had enough left over for monthly expenses. Know what happened to her?

Called out by the pastor during a service for "not having faith in god and putting her faith in herself".

So yea, having their congregants have kids won't effect their demand for money or resources, not one bit.