“It has long been my opinion that the Catholic Church is nothing but a criminal organization that gets tax free status.”
I share your idea, and furthermore it extends to a lot of so-called “mainstream religions!” Just the mere fact that they all work at cross purposes to this country’s immigration laws, clucking about how they are “above them” because they “are bound by a higher law,” is enogh to gag a maggot! Tax all of them, they are simply in “the god business,” trying to make their “customers” believe that they aren’t “good enough,” but with enough Sunday brainwashing together with paying them enough, they tell them they will become “good.”
I used to attend a small Lutheran Church down the street. The minister was a soft spoken man of Swedish descent. I really liked the small church atmosphere. But then a few members got rid of him and brought in a young female minister. Soon after, there was a rainbow flag by the door and some political signs in the yard supporting the gay marriage item on the ballot that fall. We never went back. Of course that didn’t stop them from endlessly asking us for more money.