If all the churches in the United States contributed their fair share in keeping the country running, the national debt could be paid. Free health care and unbiased education would become a reality overnight.
Dear Ones,
First Native Americans had their sovereign lands confiscated by the Federal Government through corrupt insidious ways. One device was very effective with church and state in cahoots with one another. Original indigenous real estate was taken to build unwanted churches and government boarding schools. Native children were taken from their parents and even adopted against their will. Many youths were punished, killed and buried under crosses in government schoolyards.
Others students ran back to their reservations, the remaining original land of First Americans. It was a matter of survival. A foreign culture caused a holocaust of extermination and the malice of genocide aided by religion. The victims suffered through brutal racism, desegregation, poverty and neglect for centuries.
Today mega churches include the Latter Day Saints (LDS) Mormon Gothic temple across from the $2 billion mall having a retractible glass roof, an underground 5,000 capacity vehicle parking lot and 100 shops in its financial empire. It was recently dedicated under the Stars and Stripes with the members "$inging" the words "rockets red glare bursting in air" –an air green-in God we Trust money" as members are all taxed with a 10 percent tithe.
Other gigantic church buildings sit on prime property. Yet they don't have to pay their share of funding for schools, roads and other essentials. Even those without children pay for school taxes, as churches have no authorization as they go scot free and are unliable.
U.S. churches remain the untouchables ones. These tax-free, non-profit institutions get off the hook by letting the rest of the citizens pay taxes for them. The clergy are allowed to avoid paying their full share of income taxes, too, as they also have gotten government perks and food.
There is no valid reason for such unconstitutional behavior that is often fanatical. Why are churches given special treatment when their history is laced with such evil repute? Other service people doing good work don't have the same privileges, such as the those in the medical profession, teachers, fire-fighters and police officers. Without having to foot the bill, churches walk away free of responsibility–an American outrage. Yet our founding fathers insisted on separation of church and state, now ignored even in Washington. America is better than this.
Having tax breaks, churches profit from peddling supperstition, pulpet political campainging and cross-stamped exemptions. If soldiers during the Roman Empire had crucified the good Jesus of Nazareth by hanging, there would be a noose on every steeple today, as there would have been on every grave in colonial America. Substitute bully praying with fair share paying.
Mame
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