The founders of America were correct and had great wisdom: They knew the dangers of Religious Passions in all the global religions throughout history. At all cost they cautioned us to keep Church and State separate. Limiting free speech inside our churches to matters of faith in return for operating via tax-free funds has seemed a very v…
The founders of America were correct and had great wisdom: They knew the dangers of Religious Passions in all the global religions throughout history. At all cost they cautioned us to keep Church and State separate. Limiting free speech inside our churches to matters of faith in return for operating via tax-free funds has seemed a very viable and pragmatic solution fpr 200 years.
However, people who follow their faith and belong to church families, regardless of church denominations, have developed decades of painful blisters listening to the liberal belittling of their life styles, and faith. And, People of Faith are not convinced that the lack of Faith and the associated lack of an actionable and comprehensive moral life style model has been good for America over the last 50 years.
As in all things human, the excesses of massively rich evangelists, and the deeply flawed life style of rich people such as Mr. Trump, surely should both be addressed, when they profess to be 'people of faith,' and use tax dodges to shelter their income and life style.
Yanking the tax exempt status of churches featuring leaders and pastors who are openly addressing their flocks on Sundays with deliberate a deliberate and specific political agenda should be a matter of following the laws adopted to keep Church and State separate. But, similarly, it should be just as clear that yanking the corporate charters of all the corporations who are run by our ultra conservative elites and have zero qualms about criminally flaunting our financial tax laws.
The liberal press, and Mr. Hartman, would do well to treat churches and its faithful with great caution between 2022-24. They are NOT a top priority for voters. The corporations and the global corporate cartels are much more effective.
Mr. Hartman's citations:
It’s hard to find a successful televangelist or major evangelical pastor who is not now a multimillionaire, presiding over a multi-million or even billion-dollar empire within America’s multi-billion-dollar-a-year religious industry. And they got there, in part, because you and I are subsidizing them.
Modern history, particularly since 1954, proves the wisdom of Madison and Jefferson‘s concern.
If right wing religious leaders want to tell their followers how to believe, how to behave, and how to vote, that’s fine. That’s their right in a nation that celebrates both free speech and freedom of — and freedom from — religion.
Churches, after all, have been telling their members how to behave since the beginning of organized religion. Social and political control exercised through religion is nothing new: it’s at least as old as the Bible.
The founders of America were correct and had great wisdom: They knew the dangers of Religious Passions in all the global religions throughout history. At all cost they cautioned us to keep Church and State separate. Limiting free speech inside our churches to matters of faith in return for operating via tax-free funds has seemed a very viable and pragmatic solution fpr 200 years.
However, people who follow their faith and belong to church families, regardless of church denominations, have developed decades of painful blisters listening to the liberal belittling of their life styles, and faith. And, People of Faith are not convinced that the lack of Faith and the associated lack of an actionable and comprehensive moral life style model has been good for America over the last 50 years.
As in all things human, the excesses of massively rich evangelists, and the deeply flawed life style of rich people such as Mr. Trump, surely should both be addressed, when they profess to be 'people of faith,' and use tax dodges to shelter their income and life style.
Yanking the tax exempt status of churches featuring leaders and pastors who are openly addressing their flocks on Sundays with deliberate a deliberate and specific political agenda should be a matter of following the laws adopted to keep Church and State separate. But, similarly, it should be just as clear that yanking the corporate charters of all the corporations who are run by our ultra conservative elites and have zero qualms about criminally flaunting our financial tax laws.
The liberal press, and Mr. Hartman, would do well to treat churches and its faithful with great caution between 2022-24. They are NOT a top priority for voters. The corporations and the global corporate cartels are much more effective.
Mr. Hartman's citations:
It’s hard to find a successful televangelist or major evangelical pastor who is not now a multimillionaire, presiding over a multi-million or even billion-dollar empire within America’s multi-billion-dollar-a-year religious industry. And they got there, in part, because you and I are subsidizing them.
Modern history, particularly since 1954, proves the wisdom of Madison and Jefferson‘s concern.
If right wing religious leaders want to tell their followers how to believe, how to behave, and how to vote, that’s fine. That’s their right in a nation that celebrates both free speech and freedom of — and freedom from — religion.
Churches, after all, have been telling their members how to behave since the beginning of organized religion. Social and political control exercised through religion is nothing new: it’s at least as old as the Bible.