(December 9, 2014 at 5:27 pm)abaris Wrote:(December 9, 2014 at 5:23 pm)Godschild Wrote: You guy's ready to foot the bill or will you make excuses to get around what the church does, by the way it will take an army of paid workers being paid a salary, plus travel and room and board, paper work out the rear.
Abso-fucking-lutely. If it prevents lobbying for anti gay legislation in Africa and the damnation of using condomns or birth control, there's a cause worth paying for.
I'd rather have my taxes going to the poor and needy than to some other obscure government projects.
^^^^^This^^^^^
Especially since many of these "services" provided by some churches require a prayer or a bible reading before any help is given. Conditional charity is not charity.
We all end up paying taxes to wars and other things we may not agree with. Why not use some of our taxes to actually help people.
And I especially think these mega churches where those who operate them have personal jets and fortunes in the tens, if not hundreds, or millions should be especially harshly taxed.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
