They're not playing the "we are poor card." They're asking for legally-provided subsidies. The money they don't spend on computer systems could conceivably be used for programs to help the poor. Many churches in the USA provide such programs and services.
In any case, it's really up to the government to decide if it should provide so many financial breaks and shelters to religious organizations. I think that would probably happen in Europe first, there's no way it would even be considered in the USA at present.
In any case, it's really up to the government to decide if it should provide so many financial breaks and shelters to religious organizations. I think that would probably happen in Europe first, there's no way it would even be considered in the USA at present.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
