(July 7, 2014 at 3:58 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote:(July 7, 2014 at 3:55 pm)Luckie Wrote: Wait.. so you're saying people give them free money, then they turn around and get that money back in taxes too?
No, it just means they don't have to pay taxes on the free money.
Also, church real estate is exempt from property taxes.
The day your people become less religiously oriented maybe the exemptions and benefits will fade away. Americans seem to like the church too much to care about abolishing this benefits, and even if there is freedom of religion there is always a predominant religion in society, like it or not.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
