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Pastor to Taunt IRS Over Free Speech

AmyDB Wrote: Oct 08, 2012 10:08 AM

There was & is a reason that churches are not subject to taxes. The Founder were concerned that the government could influence what the churches / Pastors of the churches would say by using the hammer of taxation. They saw this in Britain & Europe & did not want it to happen here. This is why they put in writing that the Freedom of speech & Freedom of religion were in the same Amendment. This is also why both are in the 1st Amendment & not one of the latter ones of the Bill of Rights.

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Nobodys_Thom Wrote: Oct 12, 2012 8:09 AM

Weird Mom I had... I heard something about churches not being taxed. I know I was 8 or younger because of what house I was in. My Mom told me "The Power to tax is the power to destroy," U tink dat da Barry kid his mum she say this too. She teach him not the same reason, eh? She be teaching Barry how to destroy, yes, the opium of the people, right.?

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Pastor to Taunt IRS Over Free Speech

How did we get to where we are in our culture and our politics today? I have wondered this since Obama took office and started exacting his socialist agenda on our great country. There is plenty of blame to go around—complacency, greed, laziness, apathy. I submit that churches may not have caused the problems we have today, but certainly could have curtailed the advancement of tyranny. In my work (my book and The Dr. Gina Show), I have laid out the way that some cowardly pastors have tolerated their flocks’ apathy, greed, complacency and laziness, and that only the...

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