Posted on 11/25/2021 6:09:57 PM PST by lowbridge
As The Salvation Army launches its Red Kettle Campaign this holiday season, some of its long-time donors are withdrawing their support from the 156-year old charitable organization citing its newly embraced "woke" ideology as the reason.
Of great concern to loyal supporters and faithful Salvationists is the initiative dubbed "Let's Talk About Racism." In a nutshell, its curriculum outlines the Christian church's alleged racial collusion and provides action steps to analyze and combat racism through an "anti-racist" lens while incorporating Critical Race Theory.
Definitions of institutional and systemic racism are included while real or perceived differences in life outcomes ("inequities") are attributable not to individual effort and other circumstances, but to discrimination. Sections address topics including police brutality, health care and Black unemployment linking such topics to "racial inequity."
That's troublesome for those who note The Salvation Army has been a leader in confronting racism long before the rest of the country and over five decades before the civil rights movement. And they're asking why then should members of an organization built by the Christian faith to actually assist people of all races in need, be repentant of behavior they never perpetuated?"
In my estimation, CRT is a Trojan horse taking in well-intentioned Christian enterprises that—because they care about justice and oppose oppression—naively promote the most serious threat to biblical Christianity I have seen in 50 years," wrote Christian apologist and radio talk show host Greg Koukl in a Facebook post earlier this month.
Entitled An Open Letter to The Salvation Army, Koukl prefaces the post by informing TSA that he is terminating his monthly donations and directing them to another organization. Koukl is also the founder and president of the Stand to Reason, a non-profit religious organization
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
“And they’re asking why then should members of an organization built by the Christian faith to actually assist people of all races in need, be repentant of behavior they never perpetuated?”
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They shouldn’t, but when your organization is infested with stealth Communists, woke liberals and other assorted nuts, you end up destroying the everything for the sake of posturing and virtue signaling.
Piss on ‘em. I will not give them one cent now or ever again. That’s how we stop this insanity. Dry up the well and let them die if thirst.
They’ve likely been infiltrated...their leadership, that is. We are giving to Constitution loving/promoting organizations. Plus I’m tired of all the “give to the poor” in the richest nation on earth...most of the “poor” have plenty of our (tax) support..
Don’t they have those fake $20 bills that when you see on the ground and pick up, they have a message in them? I’d buy about 20 of them that said Go Woke, Go Broke.
If you’re looking for a charity to support, check out Code of Vets. $.98 of every dollar goes to vets in need.
LIKE
The people you are calling are the perpetrators of it. They are the leftists you reference and they are running the organization.
They may not even give a fig.
Likely promised a ton of $$$ by the likes of $oros or CCP.
:-(
Why else would they make such an absurd decision to cut off LONG TIME donors?
How to kill an organization in one fail swoop. Good grief!
Used to be that your donation was spent in your locale. A good thing IMO. A couple of years ago I learned that was no longer the case.
I wasn’t happy with that but still donated. No more. I’m not giving money to people who [basically] despise me. Done. That bridge is burned.
PS: do any of these F Tards even know the definition of the word “racism”? 99% of what they bitch about isn’t racism.
Just ripped up the donation form and envelope sitting on my desk.
Won’t drop anything in their kettles again either.
I reckon!
LGB FJB
That’s what the Left wants whites to do because the objective is to destroy the institution itself.
Instead of not donating, why don’t you contact their leaders and explain that their being used as pawns to create more division in this country.
By not donating, you are ironically giving in to the Left.
restart with clean stock?
“slip a note in the red kettle”
my kettle note reads:
“In lieu of a donation, i offer my sincere apology for being born Caucasian.”
It’s been a long time since most bell ringers were members-now it’s ‘just a job’... so this newest change isn’t a big surprise
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/us/10santas.html
Dozens of Salvation Army divisions nationwide are paying their ringers and Santas, in a few states slightly above minimum wage, to help make up for a lack of volunteers and donations from individuals,
I had to quit a few years ago when they were pushing LGBTQ unnecessarily. When these charities take their eyes off God and go off Script as in Scripture their demise is in the future.
If you do, wear gloves. Leave no fingerprints on the note. Just saying.
Good point bro. 👍😀
None. They are one of the few organizations that has no admin. overhead.
My friends mother worked at our local Salvation Army. She said the people there kept the best donations (clothes, toys) for themselves and family. I never gave another dime after she told me that
I plan on doing the same. That’s what they asked for after all.
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