User talk:No God 4 Rob

Churches next to Churches down the street from Churches
The city I live in, Roanoke is a quaint mid-sized city in southwestern Virginia. It is only 45 minutes or so from Liberty University in Lynchburg. Needless to say, I don’t have to explain to you the mindset of the majority of residents in my community. I live deep in the Bible belt.

I did a Yahoo search one day, because I was curious about how many churches was in my city. The results were a little surprising. From the information given, I deducted that there is at least five hundred or so churches with a Roanoke address. That basically puts a church on every block or two in my city.

Now I know, the results should not be surprising to me. I know I live in the Bible belt and delusion is the norm of the day, but five hundred churches! Do you really need that many churches in one community? Is it beneficial to Christianity to be so compacted into a small area? Is in beneficial for humans to have so many churches?

I pass many of them when I go to work at night. I see Baptist, Lutherans, Church of God, Church of Christ etc, etc. Many of these churches appear to be built with the finest of building materials.

Now I think on how much money it took to build and maintain such a structure. The cash that must flow for grounds care, electric, water, sewer and gas utilities. I wonder if the money could be better used? Knowing that so much money flows without a thought through the doors of a superstition when there are the homeless, the hungry, the sick and the crippled that could us that money more. The poor, the welfare recipients, the elderly who could have used the money to buy a better life, but instead the money was used to build a temple to imaginary person.

I see churches next to churches down the street from churches and I think to myself that all I see is a lot of misuse and human ignorance.