• PiJiNWiNg
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    6 days ago

    Would be nice if we had some kind of visibility into that, huh?

    • RowRowRowYourBot
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      6 days ago

      Why? We don’t assess anyone’s wealth because that’s insanely hard to do and is why every wealth tax that gets adopted eventually gets dropped.

      What right do we have to know what a foreign nation, which the Vatican is, has?

      Why would you want government workers to decide what is and is not acceptable for a Church? This is literally why the Congregationalists moved to Plymouth.

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        6 days ago

        My point is that, in the US, other organizations that accept charity have to produce documentation detailing their spending. Religious organizations should be held to the same standard.

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          6 days ago

          Their spending not their wealth yet you brought up wealth not spending.

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            5 days ago

            Because those things are related. If you don’t spend all your revenue, you end up accumulating wealth - that’s profit. Which is directly in contradiction of being a nonprofit entity.

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              4 days ago

              Profit is the revenue you have left after your expenses. Profits can become wealth but wealth is not profits.

              If you can’t understand the above you should be asking questions more than making definitive statements.

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                4 days ago

                The fact that you think this contradicts what I said really speaks to your reading ability.

                Profits can become wealth

                Is the same as what I said

                you end up accumulating wealth

                Now go be incorrectly pedantic somewhere else.

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                  4 days ago

                  The wealth a church has can be derived from gifts which aren’t revenue and aren’t profits. For example when my local bishop died he gave the diocese his collection of first edition theological texts. Those books have value and this are wealth but zero profit is gained by having them because they aren’t being sold.

                  At no point was I “incorrectly pedantic” you seem to just not know the difference between wealth and profits which is odd considering the claims you have made about your academic background.

                  • Bronzebeard@lemm.ee
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                    4 days ago

                    You’re reading way too much into the order I phrased something in, all in an attempt to distract from you being wrong. You keep going further and further off track to distract people. It’s not working. Stop it.

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        5 days ago

        This is literally why the Congregationalists moved to Plymouth.

        A bit disingenuous. They also didn’t want to be persecuted while having batshit insane ideas and did horrible persecution, even unto death and torture of others, unless I’m misremembering. Churches should not be allowed to persecute nor encourage persecution of others. It would be nice if they actually taught the whole Bible in a sane and honest way and let God do the judging.