To the employee, not the Church. It is deducted from the Employees wages.
Teaching less than the truth does not approach physical death or enslavement - we would all be guilty as well as victims.
Teaching falsehood is an incredible evil that causes death and enslavement.
There is no reasonable justification for prohibiting people who identify with a religion from acting politically.
Then they shouldn't be subsidized. Everyone else has to pay taxes on property that they meet in. Why not Churches if they are going to use them to promote their political agenda?
Which other groups of like-minded people do you think should not be able to act together according to their beliefs?
Everyone should be able to act together, after they pay their taxes : )
You don’t understand about withholding tax. The Medicare and Social Security are matched by the employer or paid in full by self-employed people - at double the rate that comes out of the wages of those employed by others.
I gave you a link and you evidently didn’t bother to learn. No wonder you claim “churches” advance “their political agenda.”