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To: Sendme who wrote (75225)	12/26/2022 2:43:00 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 97970

In my experience, almost all of them are a business. Just like being a doctor is a business. I remember one of my friends who was attending med school. While she was in school, she was telling me about how her professor was telling them stories about a pregnant woman on welfare who could not afford proper care and the teacher parted with his wisdom to the class on how to make as much money off of her as they can because she had known that she is pregnant for months and should have saved money for her med expenses. I know this line of thought appeals to many conservatives, but on the face of it most people would find it terrible to take advantage of a poor pregnant woman and milk her for all they can. As to my friend, she spent 3 years with doctors without borders. I bring this up because I don't think that fundamentally there should be a difference between the two groups. I know of doctors who spend one or two days a week in impoverished neighborhoods to heal the people for free or average one or two months a year with doctors without borders. Clearly they went into medicine not just for the money. And of course I also know of those who want to milk it for all they can... I'd say pastors likely have the same ratio of the mix. A few felt a calling and went in for their heart, while the majority make a business of it. If the doctors don't get special tax breaks, why should the pastors? ...and I am not even talking about the nonsense like the church of scientology catering the Hollywood gullible.