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'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

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[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

501 3c non-profit

Firstly, the world needs to go to rehab for the opium of the masses.

Secondly, this is a story from a Canadian source about a Canadian city, so we would be likely talking about the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, unless of course it was incorporated under the equivalent Quebec Act.
The church likely is in complete compliance with the act, it's very easy to be.

The Faith-based defence clauses in s.224(2), s.251(3), and 253(2) of the act are a problem, and should be removed though.

[–] dastanktal@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, the religious defenses are specifically what I'm talking about. There should be no reason for any sort of religious defense at all in these type of charities. If they're going to operate, they need to operate under a secular framework.

I don't care if they do it in the name of their god or for whatever reason they're doing it, but it needs to be done in full compliance with secular raas with no religious exemptions.

Edit:

When Marx was talking about the opium of the masses, he didn't mean it as a drug that we are addicted to, he meant it as a salve for humanity, so we can get through the absolute worst things. I don't have a problem with people being religious as long as they use a material reasoning for their decisions, they cannot justify any decisions solely based off metaphysical religion.