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Sorry for the Typos 'R Us post. Posting from the tablet does not encourage good usage (especially when autocorrect rears it's ugly head. But to the point, religious organizations are granted special tax free status. I don't have a problem making them follow certain rules to maintain this status. This is especially true if those rules shouldn't be a problem if they really are anything we would want to think of as a religion. In terms of this, I think of Scientology. L Ron Hubbard explicitly started Scientology to abuse the tax rule for religious orgnaizatins. But because he and his associates were able to convince the IRS they are a religion, they can abuse the tax rules with no problem. That should be stopped.
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delicately calloused |
I'm no expert but as I understand it your perceptions are distortions and partial truths. Of course they make things look silly or suspicious. That's what the Left does to us conservatives and it is no more true than an all out lie. As a rule I stay out of religious bickering because the internet is a poor venue for an edifying discussion relative to that. But I get wrapped around the axle when I see distortions used to deceive or mock others on this board. Forgive me if that is not your intent. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I'll clarify one point in the article regarding tithing. There are many faithful, active members of the church who struggle to pay tithing. They are not ostracized or cast out. Others pay tithing quite willingly. Members believe tithing is a commandment of God. Those who pay tithing from around the world understand where it goes to. With very few paid positions in the church, the majority of the tithing funds go to construct and maintain local chapels and temples and also fund church-sponsored schools. Members shouldn't stop paying tithing because funds have reached some critical point. At some point, that may change or expenses may change. The church bends over backwards to comply with all tax and investment laws. There's no incentive to skirt the laws. P229 | |||
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women dug his snuff and his gallant stroll |
How about some reparations for the families of the Mountain Meadows Massacre? | |||
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delicately calloused |
How about some reparations for the women and children murdered by the good Christian mobs of Illinois and Missouri? You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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And then there's the Vatican's Peter's Pence.
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Reparations for Mountain Meadow? What about the dispatch riders from SLC riding south to instruct the settlers to leave the Missourians alone, notwithstanding the Missourians boasts about a repeat of Hawns Mill? Those were local settlers who were acting independently. The west was a little bit wild back in the day, so I’ve heard. The church is no more obligated for reparations today than you are for American slavery, or a bunch of Swedes are for breeding up my great^18 Celtic grandmother. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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Dinosaur |
In related news, Russian, Chinese and North Korean hacking units have announced a pause in operations in order to pursue exciting opportunities for personal enrichment. | |||
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I'm surprised this topic has become so contentious.... I'm not LDS , so it's none of my business what they do financially. None whatsoever.....mike | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
How they were able to keep it a secret is a wonder to me. As a non Mormon, that impresses me that whoever controls the money are good stewards. Mormons were used as an example in a book I read as a young man about being able to save as part of being successful. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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