[donna]

Churches should stop providing insurance coverage.

Why do churches have employees anyway?

And, fifty years ago lots of Christians considered it to be a lack of faith in God to have health insurance. Ain’t that something to think about.

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Churches should stop providing insurance coverage.

Would the government have the power to close their doors if they don't have insurance? I don't attend church so I didn't know they carried insurance.

Why do churches have employees anyway?

Somebody's got to count the money in the offering plate. When I was a little girl our preacher did that. No employees.

And, fifty years ago lots of Christians considered it to be a lack of faith in God to have health insurance. Ain’t that something to think about.

It sure is.

[NathanR]

All have at least one employee. The preacher or the organist (musician). Most have more.

[tpanther]

.....hmmmmmmm.....and Hillary wants MANDATORY health care for all.....

something to think about all right.

[RobbyS]

As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, there has been a process of laicization of its social functions. Church organizations have created large bureaucracies that didn’t exist before. Work that was done by religious for bare wages is now done by employees. Employee cost money, because people expect to live middle-class lives and will not live in poverty. One reason for the push to allow priests to marry is this desire to integrate them into this new clericy.

[GOPologist]

*****Why do churches have employees anyway?*****

Churches are big businesses: e.g., their employees are custodians, music directors, cooks, housekeepers, bookkeepers.

Churches also own and run hospitals, and schools. Need I point out who the employees are in these institutions?

[COgamer]

“And, fifty years ago lots of Christians considered it to be a lack of faith in God to have health insurance. Ain’t that something to think about.”

The times have definitely changed... At least partly, I think, because parents can now be considered criminally negligable if they allow a suffering child to become crippled or die because they didn’t believe in medicine. Polio was thought to be eradicated until recently Amish children started getting it because their parents chose not to get them vaccinated.

Certain people have always expected God to do everything for them, instead of making any effort to take responcibility for their own lives. God is there to provide support and love, not welfare, and I think more people realize that today than did fifty years ago.