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To: cosmicforce who wrote (799)	1/12/2001 5:54:58 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Fine. Purely charitable work done by churches should be tax exempt, but what if there are prayers or sermons involved (like Salvation Army soup kitchens). Indirectly the government is establishing a religion by forcing other taxpayers to replace the revenue that would have been due the government had there not been this loop hole. The government is indeed forcing others. The government not the church. If X takes from Y but not from Z, Z is not abusing Y. As for "purely charitable work" only being tax excempt, there are tax exempt organizations that do not act exclusively to feed and clothe and shelter poor people. Refer to the Scientology case. There is precedent. Precedent merely means that it was done that way, not that the decision was right (or wrong). I don't have and the government is according all tax-exempt religion special status that ATHEISTS don't have in their social organizations. Perhaps they should be tax excempt at least as long as they want to call themsevles religions, and to an extent they are. If they are a group orgninzed to promote a religoious belief (namely that there is no God), then I think a very good argument could be made that they are indeed religions. Tim

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