[smoking camels]

I am proud to carry the label of MENACE if it means being a menace to such a false religion. I was asking you why the USA recognizes a reigion as a state. No good answer from you.

All you know how to answer is to say shut up and accept it. You are followers of a cult like group with a fallible and sinful man as your leader. Anything else is hearesy to the Lamb of God.

[justsomedude]

I am proud to carry the label of MENACE if it means being a menace to such a false religion. I was asking you why the USA recognizes a reigion as a state. No good answer from you. All you know how to answer is to say shut up and accept it. You are followers of a cult like group with a fallible and sinful man as your leader. Anything else is hearesy to the Lamb of God.

You keep confirming my suspicions.

[Conservative til I die]

I was asking you why the USA recognizes a reigion as a state.

The Catholic CHurch is a Church. The Vatican is a city-state. I figure you can tell the difference.

[SoothingDave]

I was asking you why the USA recognizes a relgion as a state.

They don't. They recognize a state as a state. The Lateran treaty of 1923 recognizes the Vatican's independence from the state of Italy. When you go to the Vaitcan you can get your passport stamped. You can go to the Vatican post office and use Vatican stamps, bought with Vatican Euro coins, to mail letters, postmarked from the Vatican.

It has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with who has the final word on what goes down within a piece of territory. Who has sovereignity. And it is not the country of Italy that does, it is the country of the Vatican City.

SD