Posted on 05/12/2015 3:18:56 PM PDT by Biggirl
So the Church should not have got involved with divisive issues like Jim Crow and Slavery. The Rev Martin Luther King jr should have focused only on poverty
...but the loss of tax exempt status is exactly what the Church needs to go through.
...it’s what the establishment clause is also about, they’re not required to file for 501c3 in the first place to be tax exempt. The law specifically exempts “the Church” because the Constitution was also intended to protect the Church. If you have the power to tax you have the power to destroy. The founders never intended for the government to be able to do that.
Fooling the Church into thinking it had to file to be exempt was all so they could then be told - be careful what you say now, don’t be political. Well, fine...so long as the government doesn’t start treading on theological issues. This idea that politics and religion are two distinctly unrelated things is for fools.
The Church needs to lose tax exempt status, say what they want on the political front, refuse to pay taxes and continue to do what a Church should be doing. It may get ugly but the government will lose, coming out of it the Church will be far stronger.
It makes no sense to have the right to free speech, freedom of religion and the concept of “separation of Church and State” (goes both ways) but then have the state tell you what you can and can’t say in a Church. If the government has a position on abortion and gay marriage of course the Church has the right to challenge these ideas with their congregations, along with explicitly stating what a given politician stands for.
The Church has been silenced for too long. Only fools would try to tax the Church, so of course it will happen - the fascists are also fools. They have no idea what they’ll be unleashing, I say - let it happen.
Is this the same president who uses his IRS to PUNISH charities and charitable giving at every turn?
Well he has the next Presiding Bishop of TEC post sewn up.
Churches should focus on everything God wants.
That includes abortion, homosexuality, poverty, and every issue under the sun.
The only cure to poverty is a job, and being a good steward of your provision.
Abortion is the taking of a human life....this is wrong.
Homosexuality is a sin.
Everyone should check their Bibles. The answers are in there.
Abortion and Gay Marriage is why the USA is under judgment by the Holy One. So you should spend less time demeaning the USA and LEADING which is what the people elected you to do expect of a POTUS and it that are you have been an epic fail!
Freegards
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He knows what’s best for America’s impoverished: MILLIONS MORE ILLEGAL ALIENS AND TERRORISTS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST!!!
Sure, Bathhouse Barry. God has no moral authority. Tell that to your gay ISIS buddies.
Obama is a nosy little faggot who wants to mind everyone’s business.
Spiritual poverty is a hell of a lot bigger threat to this country than material poverty.
No ...they should focus on Yeshua and what He means in your life ...
.....As long as you believe, as long as you believe.
Abortion and gay marriage feeds spiritual death. Poverty does not. Poverty is a material problem that can be remedied in most cases by effort and steadfastness, hard work, service for others, getting along with people, etc.. Abortion and gay marriage encourages murder, disregard for the sanctity of life, the death of the family... just destruction of the soul.
Kosher wine at that. Jesus of Nazareth said The poor you will have with you always ,but Me you will not.Matthew 26:
Obama should focus on reflecting the America Justice Joseph Story —A Harvard Grad polar opposite of the Communists it has provided the ACLU. Obama should have encouraged Christianity at leat as much as he has the enemy of America.
Boy you need more shine! As F-—ed up as this mess is wine will not cut the pain. Plus no tax on every run you do! Starve the beast!
Is Obama a Satanic being?
I certainly don’t know but think it is something which should be considered. Just about every thing about him seems to indicate that he is.
Don’t dismiss the idea out of hand.
Well, the Russian Orthodox Church became an arm of the Communist Party under Stalin, and to a greater or lesser extent they remain joined at the hip to the state.
(Friends in the know say there's a movement among some to declare Stalin a Saint - there are icons, you know...)
So if it can happen in mother Russia, can it happen here?
Well we were told that in the last days people would turn from the faith ... you have to think about those Christians murdered by ISIS for not giving up their faith. There is nothing that would tear me away from Yeshua .... nothing.
Cardinal4: STFU, Hussein..
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