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Churches need to be taxed
July 9, 2020 at 10:24 am
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If the C-19 pandemic and churches receiving huge monetary bailouts from the government has taught us at least one thing, it's that the church must be held responsible for paying taxes since it has breached the constitutional law regarding separation of church and state.
Televangelists and megachurches tied to Trump get huge bailouts
Sceintology gets bailout despite being worth billions
More churches receive bailout
We cannot stand for this, something has to be done.
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RE: Churches need to be taxed
July 9, 2020 at 12:49 pm
Also, anti-LGBTQ groups got more than $2 million in virus relief loans
Quote:Several of the organizations have been designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Chris Fleming, spokesperson for Accountable for Equality, which works to educate the public about anti-LGBTQ extremists, said in an email this week that some of the groups have gone so far as to oppose including sexual orientation and gender identity protections in anti-lynching and hate crimes laws.
"I don't think it's a stretch to say that tax payer funds shouldn't go to support groups that defend killing gay people," he wrote. "Public funds have no business pushing tax paying Americans out of the public square, let alone promoting hate and violence. These groups promote the marginalization of LGBT people."
In total, the eight groups received between $2,650,000 and $6,400,000 through the PPP program.
https://americanindependent.com/anti-lgb...-covid-19/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Churches need to be taxed
July 9, 2020 at 4:00 pm
A ton of politicians also padded their pockets in the process. Are we really surprised that when you hold up a "free money" sign that the greediest will kick and claw their way to the front for their handouts?
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RE: Churches need to be taxed
July 9, 2020 at 5:52 pm
But tackattack, why can't Christians just believe in God? Why do they need to hoard money as well?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Churches need to be taxed
July 9, 2020 at 8:36 pm
Here's why.
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RE: Churches need to be taxed
July 9, 2020 at 9:43 pm
the money was for businesses. churches are tax exempt. they outed themselves by accepting the money. churches are businesses and owe a great deal of taxes.
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RE: Churches need to be taxed
July 10, 2020 at 5:03 am
They don’t need to hoard money. As a Christian I don’t and my church doesn’t. As masoni pointed out, those that took a government handout to continue operating aren’t operating on faith in God and outing themselves. they’re abusing their Gov’t ties and should forfeit their tax exempt status, IMO.
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RE: Churches need to be taxed
July 10, 2020 at 5:22 am
The tax status of churches is justified on the fiction that promoting religion is somehow - in and of itself a 'charitable purpose'...feeding the hungry isn't a requirement, nor is housing the homeless or giving shoes to poor kids - all you have to do is promote religion (the real reason has to do with the wartime collusion between the Church and William of Normandy, but you have to dig a little to find it).
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RE: Churches need to be taxed
July 10, 2020 at 3:25 pm
When someone asks you why there are atheist organizations, show them this:
Quote:After lobbying, Catholic Church won $1.4 billion in coronavirus aid
The US Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.
A loan of at least $2 million went to the diocese covering Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, where a church investigation revealed last year that then-Bishop Michael Bransfield embezzled funds and made sexual advances toward young priests.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/10/n...virus-aid/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Churches need to be taxed
July 16, 2020 at 6:49 am
I agree that churches should be taxed because they sap the economy.
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