• RowRowRowYourBot
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    22 days ago

    Building mega-churches, having expensive cars and jets is not charity.

    That’s also extremely uncommon in almost all churches/denominations. The overwhelming majority of churches in the USA are mainstream denominations.

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        22 days ago

        Evangelical churches are not a single denomination but rather are a collection of unaffiliated churches.

        The reality is the mega church that owns private jets is extremely uncommon.

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          22 days ago

          I guess we’ll just pretend the Vatican doesn’t exist

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            22 days ago

            The Vatican isn’t a mega church. Almost no one in Roman Catholicism is using a private jet.

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                22 days ago

                I don’t know why you would think tha assessment has any credibility. You aren’t going to know what they have and frankly that isn’t relevant to taxation as we don’t tax wealth.

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                  22 days ago

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

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                    22 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.