‘I could lose home because I won’t go to chapel’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70552jlgjko

Posted by tyw7

18 comments
  1. she’s literally in a church almshouse. They should evict her, and move in someone else who can uphold their end, it’s not like its strenuous to sit there for maybe an hour once a week; not like they’re doing pop quizzes to make sure she’s paying attention.

  2. Just go to the fucking chapel, sit at the back, scroll on your phone for an hour… how hard is that?

  3. Holy shit lol, its beyond easy to comply with this – airpods in your ears – hairstyle to hide them – set alarm for 1hr and viola done 🤣

  4. Download a podcast
    Put in your ear buds and go ffs.

  5. Did they not check if she was religious before giving her the flat. If not, it’s on them. They can’t complain now. 

  6. I thought there was some pretty specific stuff in the bible about what you do when someone needs help, shelter etc.

    Ah yes, that was it, Jesus said you should kick them out on the street if they don’t go to chapel, that certainly sounds like something he’d say. I’m sure he’d thoroughly approve of this legal strategy!

  7. If these religious organisations aren’t really charities then they should pay tax. Either they’re offering a charitable advice or their pushing their ideology. In the latter case, it time to tax.

  8. Her own fault, just go to the sermon. Nobody is asking her to believe but she knew full well it was a condition of the charity housing.

  9. Subsidised rent in this economy for a mass service really isn’t that deep in the grand scheme of things. You’re over 60. Sit in the back and read a book, sure they won’t be bothered as long as you don’t make a scene.

    I went to Catholic school as a kid. I wasn’t religious but my mother knew if I went there I had to attend Mass a few times a month during class. It was the trade off for a decent education.

  10. Ah yes avoiding tax and using their position of power to force the less fortunate to do what they want. Sounds like a church to me.

  11. Don’t move into the premises of a religious foundation with fairly rigorous rules then. That said, it doesn’t seem a big deal going to a sermon once a week for a reduced rent. Nice big hat and your Air Pods in, bit of Sunday Magic Radio.

  12. free housing in exchange for an hour of droll on a sunday morning, and this woman is _fighting_ it?

  13. I’m not religious and wouldn’t really want to go to chapel either- so guess what? I would not have chosen here to live. Honestly, imagine thinking you have a leg to stand on in this situation

  14. I wonder what she found offensive about the sermons, the article kind of glosses over that.

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