“they probably don’t keep a list of visitors”
Yet they want churches to keep a list of all their worshipers and send it in to the government, who wants to help us.
1. Who exactly are "they"?
2. No church can keep a list of their worshipers. There is a list if people ENROLLED into that church. But, people are allowed to attend Masses at other parishes.
When we traveled all over the world I went to Masses all over the world.
I remember the Catholic Church in Belgrade, Seria. The priest spotted me :o) and kept his eye on me. I only understood TWO words in Serbian: Jesus and Christ. But I had been at Mass all my life, all over the world and the Masses are all identical. MY Missal has the LATIN words on the left sides of the Missal and the English on the right sides. So I knew what was happening and where.
When we went to Rome, naturally I went to St. Peter's Basilica. It is an AMAZING place. There are two main altars and dozens of side altars.
I decided to go to confession since I was there. WELL, there were dozens of confessionals, all listed by languages. I went to the confessional listed: English and Chinese...so the priest who heard my confession spoke BOTH English and Chinese!
3. Then, accordingly, there should be a government agency to receive this "list" of worshipers. Lol. Can you IMAGINE that? As you say, "the government" would have to appoint all kinds of people. BOTH parties would disobey.
The U.S Government "helps" me enough every tax day, thank you very much.
Just imagine if Hillary had been elected.
*Our income taxes would have QUADRUPLED!
**We would have NO MORE borders--and all the leeches on the planet would swarm in.
***There would be government welfare for all those ILLEGAL immigrants and those who WON'T work.
****WE hard working stiffs would collect NOTHING even if we put in decades of Social Security.
*****Disability? Forget about it.
ALL our hard work would be to pay for Hillary's pets--not a red cent for us "deplorables."