As a Christian, to see a religious group in the Student Center maybe should not have lit a fire under me as it did. But it did. It is wrong for a government-funded college to allow religious organizations to promote beliefs. Is it right for Mormons, Jehovah’s witnesses, Christians or the Aryan brotherhood to camp out in the most popular place on campus?
The Student Center Main Office controls who gets a table. It charges groups, such as Bank of America or the booth selling shirts and trinkets $100 to set up shop, but because it is a nonprofit church group it doesn’t have to pay.
Last time I was in a $5 million place of worship, I gave $5 to keep the lights on because “God asked for it.” So does handing out literature that gains prospective members ergo the possibility of gaining tithing from them not constitute a business?
Bank of America gives you literature in hopes you will bank with it so it can profit money from you for holding on to your assets. I am not sure that popular televangelist Benny Hinn feels any different in his white three-piece and gold crosses asking for money just as fast as he offers salvation and forgiveness.
According to The Boston Globe, The Archdiocese of Boston paid $85 million to 552 people for sexual abuse. Where did that money come from? According to www.dictionary.com the definition of a business is, “the purchase and sale of goods in an attempt to make a profit.” At http:/bookstore.lakewood.com you can purchase books from the country’s largest church. It is wrong, and students should be outraged and at least acknowledge that religion in America is a business. Nonprofit church groups should be charged to be on our campus, if be here at all. Go to the student Center office and let your voice be heard or do not be upset when Christian Nazis are here handing out “information.”
Churches of the new millennium have become nothing more than Best Buy for security and forgiveness, and like Best Buy you can get what you seek online. Absolution online at
www.absolution-online.com. Just point and click your way from the wrath of God.
If church is not a business in America, if it is nonprofit, it is doing a terrible job.