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kellychaos Nov 23rd, 2004 04:06 PM

Tax Exemption For Churches
 
There seemed to be a large involvement and/or endorsement for candidates from the moral majority ( i.e. religious right) this past election. If this gets to the point (if it already hasn't) where the churches or, their parishioners through constant brain-washing, actually donate money and time, should they actually remain tax-exempt when they are as much a political force as any other large business? Somehow, and I can't say why, there seems to have been a line crossed recently ... and most explicitly.

kellychaos Nov 23rd, 2004 04:07 PM

I accidentally put this in the wrong forum. :(

Emu Nov 23rd, 2004 04:07 PM

I'm going to assume this is in the wrong forum. Then again, it's kellychaos, so maybe not.

punkgrrrlie10 Nov 23rd, 2004 05:16 PM

Do you even understand the purpose of taxes?

Spooky Nov 23rd, 2004 07:07 PM

taxes fund all the immortals as they battle to take eachothers heads and eventually claim THE PRIZE

Stabby Nov 24th, 2004 12:22 AM

I agree with kelly. I think churches are buisnesses in so many senses and I have thought for a long time that they should be paying taxes. Not only do I think that a majority of churches do not operate "non-profit" (have you ever seen the cars that a pastor drives, their homes, or how they dress?) but since they continue to have an outspoken political agenda I think that makes them null and void.

Perndog Nov 24th, 2004 12:24 AM

I'm with Spooky on this one.

Cosmo Electrolux Nov 24th, 2004 10:31 AM

I think that if Churches get involved with the affairs of state, they are no longer churches. I think that Christian churches in the US have lost sight of why they exist

Luchatein Nov 24th, 2004 10:45 AM

Catholic churches and the land they're on is owned by the Vatican, I believe.


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