From the department of unclear on the concept...
Minister ex-communicates members for not backing Bush
I kid you not.
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Bigger article here.
Sign o the times!
(Not the end times, I hope.)
That more or less removes that particular church's tax exempt status, no? I think it would have to.
Matt, that would only be true if a they had kicked out the Democrats in the congregation. Remember, it's only a problem when Democrats do something wrong. Don't forget who runs the IRS these days.
Oh, I can't wait! Just imagine the howls of protest from the right and the tut-tutting in the media about how liberals just "don't get" religious people if Democrats call for this church to lose its tax-exempt status.
"During last Sunday's sermon, he acknowledged that church members were upset because he named people, and he says he'll do it again because he has to according to the word of God."
Funny...that must have been a late addition to the Old Testament.
"Ye, and God said 'Go forth and identify the Democrats, for they shall be scorned and punished in the fiery pits of Hell'."
I think Ventura had it right.
"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business."
At its simplist, there is really little difference between telling a person that they have to hate another person because God wants them to, or because its not fashionable.
Churches claim some sort of divine guidance, Liberals claim some intellectual imperative. They are two sides of the same coin.
The key difference is that our founding fathers knew the danger religion represented to rational government and sought to bar it.
What they didn't see is that nosey do-gooders would abandon churches and create other entities, for example Greenpeace. It enjoys a status similiar to a church. Its tax exempt, it raises money from a congregation, it arguably does some good work in the community, it recruits, it prostelitizes, but is not bound by the same limitations of indirect influence that churches are.
I'd like to see not for profits and churches all loose their special status. Of course there is no special interest lobby for rational thought.
-Censored
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