Banks foreclosing on churches in record numbers

Banks are foreclosing on America’s churches in record numbers as lenders increasingly lose patience with religious facilities that have defaulted on their mortgages, according to new data.

Since 2010, 270 churches have been sold after defaulting on their loans, with 90 percent of those sales coming after a lender-triggered foreclosure, according to the real estate information company CoStar Group.

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Since Christians pray for me, and in return, I think for them, I thought it considerate to leave them with a passage written in a book by subliterate desert dwellers for an audience that is illiterate at worst, limited and literal-minded at best. This should bring solace to those that find themselves without a tax-exempt house of worship due to a foreclosure that an apparently incompetent, omnipresent, omnipotent celestial dictator was unable to prevent.

My poor non-thinking fellow homo . . . sapiens, I leave you with Matthew 6:5-6:

5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

According to The Book for Dummies, the foreclosing of one’s church is really a non issue.[MSH]

1 thought on “Banks foreclosing on churches in record numbers

  1. Thank you for your inspirational post. It makes me so happy to see church’s held accountable to the same degree as private possessions.
    “You can manage to get away with anything in this country if you can only manage to get yourself called reverend”- Christopher Hitchens
    This post shows exactly how America has indirectly honored the dead. Thanks for making my day!

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