Problems with Christian Church

[NoFaith2Burn4]

I don't get the idea that religious businesses should be given tax exempt status in order to keep out of politics.

Doesn't cut it for me. The religious businesses should keep out of politics anyway. What other businesses have to be paid off in order to not explicitly preach against the government and try to get their own ideas made into law?

Giving specific "large enough" religions tax breaks amounts to the government sponsoring those religions, for no good reason, while refusing to do the same for very small ones.

As for charity work, the rules for tax exemption should be exactly the same. Are other charities allowed to overtly preach marketing messages with no relevance to the charity work they are providing?

Religion, as always, wants special treatment. I don't know if the tax exemption will ever be removed. Maybe one day, when religion has finally lost its hold. Right now, even the politicians who want it gone are probably aware of the mass shitstorm it would cause.

They have the tax exemption, and still they don't keep out of politics. The non-endorsement of political candidates is a meaningless stipulation when it is still they who have written the laws which have oppressed minorities, women, and all who disbelieve their cruel, asinine nonsense.

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Your patron saint Peter was a murderous thug. So were the majority of his successor popes, up through the 20th Century.

I see.

You still haven't answered the question on what Lot did when a stranger came to his house, seeking asylum from a murderous mob. You haven't addressed that question because you know how inconveniently shameful downright despicable the behavior of the most holy man of his generation, who had the favor of his god truly was.

You asked in another thread, and I responded.

http://atheistforums.org/thread-35417-po...pid1027484

I asked that question along with four others in response to you taking the smug stance "Try me". If we are in a different thread now, it is only because you have carried this over accross threads. I will not click on your links, and you need to stop being a coward and print out your answer right hear, where the issue is addressed.