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RE: Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?
December 15, 2014 at 8:43 am
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To destroy Christianity completely, all it would take would be to remove all reference to it in the world, and for the details of it not to be passed on. The bible and the mythology are destroyed.
It would not magically resurface in a "fresh" generation. They may come up with some other garbage, but Christianity would be gone.
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RE: Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?
December 15, 2014 at 9:42 pm
(December 15, 2014 at 8:43 am)robvalue Wrote: To destroy Christianity completely, all it would take would be to remove all reference to it in the world, and for the details of it not to be passed on. The bible and the mythology are destroyed.
It would not magically resurface in a "fresh" generation. They may come up with some other garbage, but Christianity would be gone.
I saw a quote referencing this from Penn Jillette. He said that if all human knowledge were suddenly wiped out, the religious nonsense believed today would never be seen again. He added that it might be replaced with some other nonsense, but Jesus, Mohammed, Moses, Adam and Eve, etc. would be gone forever. However, our scientific knowledge would return intact because science doesn't change. We could figure it out all over again.
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
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RE: Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?
December 15, 2014 at 10:55 pm
(December 14, 2014 at 7:00 pm)Godschild Wrote: do you think God would give anyone enough power to stop Christianity.
I already have enough power to do that, albeit on the scale of my own property. No gods in this flat and nothing's the worse for it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?
December 16, 2014 at 10:24 pm
(December 14, 2014 at 7:00 pm)Godschild Wrote: do you think God would give anyone enough power to stop Christianity.
I was raised Christian. I abandoned it many years ago. I stopped Christianity all by myself.
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
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RE: Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?
December 16, 2014 at 10:26 pm
(December 16, 2014 at 10:24 pm)Thor Wrote: (December 14, 2014 at 7:00 pm)Godschild Wrote: do you think God would give anyone enough power to stop Christianity.
I was raised Christian. I abandoned it many years ago. I stopped Christianity all by myself.
Ditto.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?
December 16, 2014 at 11:47 pm
Indeed. I defeated it in my own head thoroughly by the age of fourteen, despite years of indoctrination.
Either God didn't want me, God couldn't beat me, or God didn't exist at all ... but there's no way this god fella can come out looking good.
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RE: Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?
December 16, 2014 at 11:58 pm
There are churches that want to help others. There are also churches that exist mainly to line the pastors' pockets. Wouldn't filing the forms to become a charitable organization help the more honest churches and their congregations?
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RE: Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?
December 17, 2014 at 1:32 am
They should only be exempt if they are an actual charity that actually does things to help others. I don't care if you take donations in the name of the Green Monkey Gods of the Alps so long as as of your donations go to the poor, hungry, and sick. But if your Church keeps half your donations as pocket liner than they should get the shit taxed out of them.
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RE: Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?
December 17, 2014 at 7:35 pm
Absolutely not. Religion and Politics don't mix. Pennsylvania was founded for the separation of church and state.. Damn It why can't Pennsylvania be the capital..
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