(December 9, 2014 at 8:23 pm)IATIA Wrote: Will not god provide?That's a good point-- though it could just as easily be said that it is god's will that churches remain tax exempt. But it would be interesting to see that used as a reason for taxing them; if it is god's will that your church make enough to get by, then you're not worried about a tax. Or even point out that it's just another trial that they must bear before receiving their reward. Heck,many religions promote the idea of giving away wealth and depending on god. Taxing churches should not be a hardship, just another way to serve him.
"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
