I’m not saying that religious institutions don’t bring some good into their community, but I am saying that major religious institutions overall seem to be a net harm to humanity than they are a net benefit. As far as Catholicism comes to mind, there’s quite a few people that have quite a lot to say about how the priest treated them when they were minors that the church covered up and continues to cover up. In my opinion, you can’t have an organization go legitimate while it’s trying to cover up child abuse such as this.

I also completely disagree with the proselytizing, and think that it’s not necessary there are plenty of homeless people that are homeless due to religious trauma and don’t need to be re-victimized every time they try to go eat because the place they want to go to insists on proselytizing every time they’re in there. I also may just have a personal bias against being proselytized too.

Look, I’m not saying it’s all bad, I’m just saying that there is propensity for religious institutions to abuse their power, which is true of any large corporation that gets big enough, but religious institutions are made particularly heinous by the religious exemptions they get to utilize, which secular organizations don’t have.

I’m sure it’s just because the community you’re in is really small, and in America, or Canada at least, people are not exactly friendly to the muslim community. I do hope that things are going well for you in that regard and that you are finding peace and safety.