(September 25, 2015 at 1:58 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: While I agree with you, would you say this is equivalent to government spending on things you deem needless, but alas it's far worse in that you cannot choose not to pay taxes to support it, and if you do, you go to prison.
Also, the government does not claim moral authority. The very fact that I am compulsed to pay taxes gives me a (marginal) say in how this country is run. I pay taxes therefore I get a voice, or federally a representative that has one. Enough of me can make a change in how the country is run.
The Church claims to be the moral authority. While you may be in agreement with the Church's stated position, your "voice" is your tithe. You can withhold that tithe, especially if you feel that the Church hierarchy needs to perform its own atonement. Would Jesus give his money to this organization?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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