Church forcing State involvement?

[Abaddon_ire]

How old are you?

A tax refund isn' t a gift. It' s you getting back what you overpaid in taxes.

So did you not know that or was that simply the worst comparrison you' ve ever made?

I'm 49.

Who said it was a gift?

I've made worse comparrisons [sic].

But you miss the point entirely.  Should access to justice be determined by how much or how little one pays in taxes?  You seemed to think it was a good idea when applied to churches, how about to people?  If we lived in the same country and I paid more tax than you, should I get better access to the court system?

Boru

No, but comparing a refugee, or a homeless person to a church that actively extracts vast wealth from the gullible as a matter of course is not remotely analogous.

Add to that the simple fact that said wealth is religiously defined as exempt from suit from crimes committed and you have a problem. You somehow want the refugee  or impoverished to be subject to the law when they have nothing. Somehow, you are proposing that the religious should be exempt from the very same rule of law, even though their obscene wealth is derived from a lie inflicted on the gullible because...who knows. 

You seem to be proposing that the religious should be exempt because...reasons.

The simple facts on the ground make the lie of such a position. The lowest in society have the law vigourously applied. Why do they get exempt? Mohammed Fugee is subject to tax laws. Joe Junkie is subject to tax laws. Religions are not. Religions get to apply a "stupidity tax" and keep the proceeds for themselves. Does this seem fair to you, somehow?