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matt819

(10,749 posts)
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 04:31 PM Oct 2019

Here's what I think about religious leaders

Well, "religious" "leaders," actually.

Here's what I think about them.

I think that when a Democrat is elected, that new Democratic president should direct the IRS to investigate those "religious" "leaders," and their "churches." And if the IRS finds that they have crossed the boundary into the political arena, then they should have their tax-exempt status revoked. Don't care if it's mainstream Christians, evangelical nutbags, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, whatever. No exemption.

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Here's what I think about religious leaders (Original Post) matt819 Oct 2019 OP
agreed Skittles Oct 2019 #1
Tax the churches... nt Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #2
Agree about tax-exempt status, understanding that Hortensis Oct 2019 #3
But. . . matt819 Oct 2019 #4

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. Agree about tax-exempt status, understanding that
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 05:09 PM
Oct 2019

all religious leaders are no more all a problem than are all black people or all Muslims, or all wypeopo, or all libtards.

A bunch of religious people are liberals and Democrats, plenty of others progressive conservatives. How can it be otherwise when so much of the lives of so many are devoted to progressive good?

matt819

(10,749 posts)
4. But. . .
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 05:28 PM
Oct 2019

Black people, and Muslims, and wypipo and libtards and rw nutjobs who speak out are welcome to do so, as long as they don't do so in religious institutions. But once religious leaders, and their followers, use their religious institutions to pursue political objectives, they get taxed. Look, I'm not a lawyer or a tax expert. And I realize this has to be fine tuned, and that it has political percussions, but it has to be done, IMHO.

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