(July 1, 2010 at 4:48 pm)Furiidomu Wrote:Yet the obvious difference here is that the vast majority of people who donate to churches do so for good reasons; because they want to be charitable, and they think they are helping. Granted, some money might find its way to fund some "evil" actions, but this is irrelevant to the point for two reasons:'Adrian Wrote:You speak about protecting individual freedoms; well what about the freedom of your neighbour to spend their money in whatever way they want? Why should you (or anyone else) have a say in what your neighbour does with *his* money?
umm, because it can pay for evil deeds. Its the same a the government arresting someone who wires money to terrorist organizations. You make it sound like anyone anywhere can buy anything they want....
1) The majority of the donations do not go towards things like this. They go towards charitable causes.
2) The people donating don't know their money will be used to fund evil (if it even is), and to compare them to the government stopping the wiring of money to terrorists is completely absurd.
As for making it sound like anyone anywhere can buy anything they want; it was you who brought up protecting individual freedoms. Well guess what, that's an individual freedom. It might not be implemented very well under most governments, but that doesn't make it any less of a freedom. If there is a demand for it, there should be a market for it (and there invariably will be, whether it is black or otherwise).
