Let’s say you own a restaurant. By your argument, you would have no problem with customers who have money in their pockets not paying their food bills, they could come in and use the restroom for free, they could hold a wedding there and use the heat/a.c. along with lighting and water for free, make a big mess and leave it for you to clean up, and they could use your waiters without paying them (hey,kind and generous owner that you are, you would love to pay them out of your own pocket).
The deal between me and the restaurant is between me and the restaurant. If I want to eat, I pay. Although there is (of course) an added sales tax, there is no direct intervention of the state collecting the restaurant bill. There isn’t a Menu Authority that I have to register with in order to place my order and there isn’t a State Payment Official who I pay the bill to.
Your analogy is just plain stupid. This is the church in league with the devil and shame on you for not seeing it for what it is.
Nonsense. There are armed guards at the door to your restaurant, collecting the bill before I enter.
What I have a problem with is the Govt collecting a tax from me and handing it over to the church. Then the church has the gall to complain that I neither tithe nor make extra donations.
Hello!!! I think I already have given! When my dues are forced by law, don’t expect anything more.
If restaurants charged for prayer or blessings, I’d wouldn’t go there.
To compare people who claim to be men and women of God, to waiters is just plain weird.