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To: marshmallow

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/10/06/world/europe/german-church-ties-tax-to-sacraments-after-court-ruling.html?referrer=


10 posted on 07/20/2015 6:42:03 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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The court said that, too, was a matter of religious freedom, a decision that so rankled religious leaders fearful of losing a lucrative revenue stream that they made clear, right away, that taxes are the price for participation in the church’s most sacred rituals: no payments, no sacraments.

I see Johann Tetzel was raised from the dead.
28 posted on 07/20/2015 8:14:42 PM PDT by ronnietherocket3 (Mary is understood by the heart, not study of scripture.)
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