Easy. Divide and conquor. Spies/espionage/corrupt from within.
Pit the power of politics against the teachings of the church. . After all, a HIGHLY respected person like Teddy or Nancy would never lie. They have too much to loose! (Yea right)
And consider that Nancy is telling the Bishops/cardinals behind the scenes (You will go along with this, you will play the game or you get your tax status changed.
Don’t doubt that some version of that occurs daily on an issue by issue basis.
You say, “Divide and conquer. Spies/espionage/corruption from within [the church].” I am afraid you are only too correct. Satanists and their ilk have infiltration of the churches on their agenda.
You go on to say, “Pit the power of politics against the teachings of the church...and consider that Nancy [Pelosi] is telling the bishops/cardinals behind the scenes, ‘You will go along with this; you will play the game or you get your tax status changed.’ Don’t doubt that some version of that occurs daily on an issue by issue basis.”
I do doubt that anything that blatant is taking place, but it may be playing out in some subtler form.
To bring up the question of a church having its tax-exempt status revoked, it seems to me that you’ve fallen into the same intellectual trap that 99.99% of Americans fall into. A church cannot have its tax-exempt status revoked. A church is BY DEFINITION tax-exempt! So why, then, do churches file for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status? They’ve fallen into the con, too! Churches do not need to ask the government for permission to be tax-exempt; they cannot be taxed under any circumstances! This is all a way for the government to control the churches—but that’s a topic for an entirely separate thread. Just thank our former Adulterer-in-Chief, LBJ, for this mess that we’re in today. (Yes, check it out—Lyndon Baines Johnson was one of the chief architects of destroying religious liberty in this country!)