RE: The Pope - After a Week In 'Murrica
September 25, 2015 at 2:17 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2015 at 2:21 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(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.
No, I wouldn't say that at all, because the very man this church claims to worship abhorred the amassing of wealth. Do you think Jesus would've spent $100 million on a temple when there were 50,000 people sleeping on the streets of that very same city?
As for taxes themselves and how they're spent, I have a voice in that; it's called the vote, and it is something I exercise regularly. Did Mahoney put this awful expenditure to a vote in his archdiocese?
eta: And do you have nothing to say about my previous post? Even as the Church still engages in obfuscation regarding the pedophilia scandal, supporting that financially doesn't seem appropriate to me.
