People like you are eager to throw the baby out with the bathwater and that shows how little nuance you allow and just how broad that brush you use to paint over everything is
You say ‘is often times’, and then declare it all to be truly not public, you say ‘if everyone can’t be helped it’s not public’, why are you so fuckdamn eager to discount every good deed based on your gut feeling of the incidence of self-serving intent? It’s basically pathologic to think that way about such a large, ununified patchwork of fuzzy boundaried sects as somehow all being corrupt and self-serving.
The simple fact is churches across the nation do more charity work than you can even imagine but you won’t ever bother learning that nuance b/c the ‘god hates fags’ sign wavers have convinced you that that’s what ALL Christians are like
You don’t know anything about me buddy. You should chill.
I don’t have any problem with charitable works by you, your church or anyone else. All I said is churches should pay taxes. And they should. You’re complicating it way more than my intent, to the point that I’m now supposed to be bigoted and pathological. Lmao. Get a grip.
Churches also do a hell of a lot of damage too. Heck no one is perfect. I never insinuated getting rid of organized religion. But since you’re suggesting throwing out the baby with the bathwater, then I wholeheartedly agree.
On the contrary, I’ve seen the shape of your arguments hundreds of times and spoken many of them myself in my ignorant and heady days of youth
You saying ‘all I said is churches should pay taxes’ is you saying that you want to bar some of the most established charities in the U.S. from benefiting from the same programs that any other charity can participate in based on your dislike of their ideology and that IS bigoted af, the literal definition of it.
I bet you don’t bitch about the Satanic Churchs’ various tax exempt churches, because their ideals of heathen sacrilege appeal to you, and you are so far up your own ass you don’t see how that makes you a hypocrite.
Sure churches do a hell of a lot of damage, I’m not denying that and I personally dance for joy for every corrupt and disgusting church leader jailed and wish that everyone would STOP protecting them. This isn’t exclusive to churches. THIS HAPPENS in EVERY place that power shields people from criticism. There are more per capita child molesters in Hollywood than in the Vatican and you KNOW this to be true
I don’t want ANY abuser protected, but you are deluded if you think this is exclusively or even mostly a church thing. It is an abuser thing, and abusers actively seek out power and because capitalism it has become normalized to ignore their foul deeds
If you want to remove the financial disclosure exemption for churches, and tax those who refuse to comply? SURE I’m ALL for that. I fully support that
But insisting that all churches are corrupt money laundering operations because of the rancid actions of the few is disingenuous and fueled by antitheist bigotry
Again you don’t know anything about me. Seems like you have a lot of prejudiced opinions though and simultaneously are openly and repeatedly calling me a bigot. Which is hilarious.
Churches, synagogues, satanic temples, mosques, any and all should pay taxes. Religion shouldn’t be tax-exempt . I don’t care what flavor.
It’s not anti-theist. It’s being fair. You want to exist, and preach the word of your holy book. Then pay taxes.
Oh you do charity that benefits any and everyone? Then discount that off the tax bill. That simple.
I hope you find whatever is actually bugging you and put it to rest. You shouldn’t be this intense about a random internet person’s opinion.
People like you are eager to throw the baby out with the bathwater and that shows how little nuance you allow and just how broad that brush you use to paint over everything is
You say ‘is often times’, and then declare it all to be truly not public, you say ‘if everyone can’t be helped it’s not public’, why are you so fuckdamn eager to discount every good deed based on your gut feeling of the incidence of self-serving intent? It’s basically pathologic to think that way about such a large, ununified patchwork of fuzzy boundaried sects as somehow all being corrupt and self-serving.
The simple fact is churches across the nation do more charity work than you can even imagine but you won’t ever bother learning that nuance b/c the ‘god hates fags’ sign wavers have convinced you that that’s what ALL Christians are like
And that’s pretty bigoted of you
You don’t know anything about me buddy. You should chill.
I don’t have any problem with charitable works by you, your church or anyone else. All I said is churches should pay taxes. And they should. You’re complicating it way more than my intent, to the point that I’m now supposed to be bigoted and pathological. Lmao. Get a grip.
Churches also do a hell of a lot of damage too. Heck no one is perfect. I never insinuated getting rid of organized religion. But since you’re suggesting throwing out the baby with the bathwater, then I wholeheartedly agree.
On the contrary, I’ve seen the shape of your arguments hundreds of times and spoken many of them myself in my ignorant and heady days of youth
You saying ‘all I said is churches should pay taxes’ is you saying that you want to bar some of the most established charities in the U.S. from benefiting from the same programs that any other charity can participate in based on your dislike of their ideology and that IS bigoted af, the literal definition of it.
I bet you don’t bitch about the Satanic Churchs’ various tax exempt churches, because their ideals of heathen sacrilege appeal to you, and you are so far up your own ass you don’t see how that makes you a hypocrite.
Sure churches do a hell of a lot of damage, I’m not denying that and I personally dance for joy for every corrupt and disgusting church leader jailed and wish that everyone would STOP protecting them. This isn’t exclusive to churches. THIS HAPPENS in EVERY place that power shields people from criticism. There are more per capita child molesters in Hollywood than in the Vatican and you KNOW this to be true
I don’t want ANY abuser protected, but you are deluded if you think this is exclusively or even mostly a church thing. It is an abuser thing, and abusers actively seek out power and because capitalism it has become normalized to ignore their foul deeds
If you want to remove the financial disclosure exemption for churches, and tax those who refuse to comply? SURE I’m ALL for that. I fully support that
But insisting that all churches are corrupt money laundering operations because of the rancid actions of the few is disingenuous and fueled by antitheist bigotry
Again you don’t know anything about me. Seems like you have a lot of prejudiced opinions though and simultaneously are openly and repeatedly calling me a bigot. Which is hilarious.
Churches, synagogues, satanic temples, mosques, any and all should pay taxes. Religion shouldn’t be tax-exempt . I don’t care what flavor.
It’s not anti-theist. It’s being fair. You want to exist, and preach the word of your holy book. Then pay taxes.
Oh you do charity that benefits any and everyone? Then discount that off the tax bill. That simple.
I hope you find whatever is actually bugging you and put it to rest. You shouldn’t be this intense about a random internet person’s opinion.
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