Church renovations wasteful in frail times

Published: March 22, 2012 4:00 PM

To the Editor,

Re: Church?s effort to fundraise for renos pays off, March 20.

While regular folk, including St. Andrew?s United Church?s congregation, scrape to manage and maintain their families needs under asphalt shingled abodes, the church urgently begs from us to provide, among other non-human needs, $100,000 for ?metal shingles? to cover its steeples alone.

In this era, commonly referred to as the worst economic time since the Great Depression, this church is attempting to keep up with the Joneses. It will most likely succeed.

The practice of ?selling? Bronze Age ideals to the innocent and pretending to help the needy remains a booming business.

In fact, the St. Andrew?s United Church recently held a ?poverty? workshop here in Nanaimo. Am I the only one that finds this all so ironic, so misleading?

This is only one church.

This church has already raised $250,000 of its hoped-for $750,000 ?repair and renovation? fund.

It will pay no taxes on any donations or other earnings it creates and is therefore a burden on all of us in the frailest of economic times.

The Creator, I think, is the head of the accounting office of religion and s/he is doing an outstanding job.

For if this is not true, two of the questions it begs are: Why did God not protect the original roof and why is there poverty?

Once the renovations are complete the St. Andrew?s United Church is going to look grand once again. Poverty can hardly wait.

Brad Wiebe

Nanaimo

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