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Well now you know you were wrong. Even so, I agree, the churches should get out of the tax exempt world. There's no justifiable reason why non believers should have to support believers with their hard earned money.
Why do some atheists embarrass themselves year after year trying to eradicate Christmas from American culture? Why do they make themselves societal hemorrhoids during this hallowed season? Is it because they are crusaders for equality, secularism’s saviors and humanism’s heroes? I’m sure that’s what they tell themselves when they’re pouting on their couches all alone on Christmas Eve after every single one of their friends has dumped them for being a rabid jackass.
I believe, however—and I could be wrong—that the reason some rage against the machine is that they hate God and love their sin, and bringing up Jesus in...
Believers support their churches themselves through their tithes and offerings without one penny of taxpayer money.
Are you one of the people who think that all money belongs to the government no matter who earns it and that its a privilege to be allowed to keep any of it?
Virtuous atheists may be common, but Christianity has changed society, as we look back, and we are all better off, for it. I would not wish to live in Fiji, before the missionaries, or in Iran, now.
Nor in North Korea or Hitler's Germany. Even the notions, Atheists possess, as to what is good or bad behavior, comes from our Judeo-Christian ideas. Cannibalism was once then norm, before Columbus.
If you want to go there, why should non-union workers support labor unions? Why should government contracts be monopolized by labor unions? Why should a labor union be tax exempt? Why should tax dollars go to liberal non-profits that use our tax dollars against us?