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Pastimes : Why do Christians want to control the world? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bob_the_ignoramus who wrote (312)	9/22/1999 12:01:00 AM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 424

Churches are non-profit making organisations Other non-profits pay their property taxes for the road, the police, the fire, the ambulance, street cleaning, flood control, and all the other services that churches seem to think come as a gift from God. If there is one main reason THE MAIN REASON that there are so many bad, really bad corrupt money grubbing evangelical churches, it is so they can get the free property tax to preseve a place to store their tax free contributions. There are good churches. Ones that bind a community, pray for rain in the drought, and counsel brides to be. These churches have support and don't need to live off the government tit. Tax free status is what corrupts the churches, brings in the Falwells and the Bakers. A church that tries to do good but morally cheats on it's fair share is caught it it's own sin. Christians pay tax, And atheists and buddists and everyone else. Billions and billions of dollars in uncollected taxes go to the churches, this raises the burdon for everyone and yet it is the christians that reap the benefit. They could give more to the church and less to taxes if the stealing were not going on, and then the church would have the same resources without taking the bread from our mouths. The church that does not pay it's fair share is a thief, it's members that don't speak up are abetting a crime. Sure it's a moral crime and not one in the statutes, but it is a commandment broken. TP