RE: Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?
December 9, 2014 at 8:23 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2014 at 8:29 pm by IATIA.)
(December 9, 2014 at 7:44 pm)Heywood Wrote: What do you do if the Church doesn't pay its property tax? Seize the property and sell it off? That sounds a lot like passing a law that effectively makes it difficult for a group of people to worship as they please.Will not god provide? Besides, a church, temple, synagogue or whatever, is not necessary nor required to pay tribute to the invisible sky-daddy. Put up a tent.
As you pray to a non-existent entity anyway, why not in a non-existent church, temple, synagogue or whatever?
Acts 20:8 - There were many lamps in the upper room where they were gathered together.
Acts 28:30 - Then Paul dwelt two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who came to him...
Acts 16:13 - And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met there.
Acts 13:42-44 - So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. Now when the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
