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To: Brumar89 who wrote (2466)	4/15/2009 2:11:32 PM
From: LLCF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

<All non-profits are tax exempt, not just religious groups.> Sure, but you have to show politicians (the people?) that you're a "non-profit"... a benevolent group. Religions have been given VERY SPECIAL status based on this assumption especially since most of them have preaching "the word of god" as their main purpose. Not exactly your typical "mission statement" of a non-profit organization. <And I don't accept that not taking money away from someone is a tax expenditure.> That's because it's NOT. But that is beside the point, and you know it. There thousands (tens of?) of institutions, preachers, workers, etc (mansions, expensive cars) and Billions of dollars flowing and riding on special status. <I think its a mistake to hold the errors of a particular institution against religion per se. > Me too... but you keep doing in in special cases of science, and therefore I'm showing you that the "errors" have magnitudes of difference. That comes from the "mission statements" themselves... scientists ALL KNOW that every idea, hypothesis, theory, even laws themselves are updated over time... every theory is just provisional, waiting to be "updated" or even discarded as incorret... THATS THE WHOLE IDEA. I think this is where religionists just don't get it... they can't wait to say "DARWIN IS WRONG"! LOL, who cares, thats the point... every scientist knows that all these things are constantly updated. That said, knowledge evolves too... and Darwins ideas have been very helpful in understanding the world. Compare that with religion.... who's mission statement is what... to preach the word of god that that particualar guy sees fit? <The ability to feel guilt is a good thing. > And being forced to do so is abuse... common... that was an ignorant thing to say. DAK

To: Brumar89 who wrote (2466)	4/15/2009 6:27:40 PM
From: LLCF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

<Couldn't disagree more.> I know, OTOH I've given you plenty of examples and then asked for some of yours < "ONE example. " > to which I got a non reply?? Again, I think we've beaten this to death. I don't think you have a clue about the history of all this (which actually you've admitted and shown) but you probably think the same of me... Let's move on and keep posting on evolution. DAK