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They don't have the money to spend on the church either, that's why churches are closing.
Per capita contributions haven't gone down nearly as much as attendance, though. Churches are losing money because the public is rejecting them on principle.
Not what I meant.
I mean, people aren't going to church, and they're just spending the money on themselves. Bills and shit. People who stop going to church aren't donating it to their community center, which means community centers are not replacing churches.
I thought we were discussing what could be? Or what ought to be? I understand that community centers have not already replaced churches.
We're discussing what can be. Can they replace churches? How do you get people to donate? The church could get people to donate because of guilt and sin and shit, the community center can't do that.
Where I live, community centers are typically funded by taxes, not donations. Which makes a lot of sense because it's a positive externality. We have the money and just don't want to spend it on church.
Must be nice. Where I live we can barely get people to pay taxes to fund schools.
Yes it is. I suspect those votes keep on passing because there's a social need for it and we aren't spending that money on church.