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Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?
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He hates paper cuts I hear!
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Please visit my website here! It's got lots of information about atheism/theism and support for new atheists. Index of useful threads and discussions Index of my best videos Quickstart guide to the forum  Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"  (December 14, 2014 at 7:23 pm)Beccs Wrote:(December 14, 2014 at 7:20 pm)robvalue Wrote: He hates paper cuts I hear! also cars tanks airplanes warships battle ships etc.
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Religion in America brings in more revenue than the top 5 corporations combined. They also are using their ill-gotten gains too make political ads. Which should be considered a direct violation of church and state.
I'd love too see the president who has the balls too pass such a law though . They'd be committing political suicide The should definetly pay taxes. 
Yeah! Kill those bad out of season fig trees. I want figs whenever I walk up to the tree. Now! If I wanted them later, I would have come around later.
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-- Homer Simpson God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion. -- Superintendent Chalmers Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things. -- Ned Flanders Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. -- The Rev Lovejoy (December 14, 2014 at 9:54 pm)IATIA Wrote: Yeah! Kill those bad out of season fig trees. I want figs whenever I walk up to the tree. Now! If I wanted them later, I would have come around later. i eat fig newtons so gods powers are negated when trying to convince me.
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It's not only for churches sadly, even hospitals that produce millions annually are subsided if they are affiliated with a church. Anything affiliated with a church gets tax breaks which is awful but almost makes me want to open a Saint. John's deli lol.
RE: Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?
December 15, 2014 at 8:19 am
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2014 at 8:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 14, 2014 at 9:52 pm)simplemoss Wrote: Religion in America brings in more revenue than the top 5 corporations combined. They also are using their ill-gotten gains too make political ads. Which should be considered a direct violation of church and state.Meh, hardly, but it does violate their exemptions. That's why it's not done directly, but through shells. (which would normally be easy to hammer anyone for - but they have special shield considerations) Quote:I'd love too see the president who has the balls too pass such a law though . They'd be committing political suicideAlready on the books. Quote:The should definetly pay taxes.Yup, if they've violated the terms of their exemption they should - and this is already what the law has to say on the matter.
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 (December 14, 2014 at 7:00 pm)Godschild Wrote: God doesn't have to respect power, no one has any unless He allows it, that being said, do you think God would give anyone enough power to stop Christianity.God respects power because power defines him. If he were real, I think there would only be one religion and everyone would recognize that power.
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