(July 11, 2022 at 4:25 pm)Orbit Wrote: Noteworthy news: Right wing think-tank gets IRS recognition as a church. Evidently this is a trend. https://www.propublica.org/article/famil...rch-status
You think these would immediately be disqualified based on any of the 501©3 requirements:
- The organization must operate exclusively for religious, scientific, educational or charitable purposes
- The net earnings of the organization may not provide an advantage to a shareholder or private individuals
- The organization can't devote a substantial part of its activity to influencing legislation
- The organization can't intervene in political campaigns
politicians be sneaky....
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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