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Old 09-07-2004, 09:54 AM   #37 (permalink)
analog
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Have they been found guilty in a court of law? If not, jump off the anti-religion soapboxes and learn a little about what "innocent until proven guilty" means.

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Lebell
Since human beings are involved in making a "church", you will find all the sins and foibles that they are party to in the institution.

But to leave any church because of it strikes me as "throwing the baby out with the bath water."
Thanks to you as well. Well put.

Oh, and for how much ministers make, it's all in their religion. Mormons bank like motherfuckers because they make (yes, MAKE) their people pay a percentage of their income to the church. The Catholic Church survives on donations and managing their money/property wisely, and their priests don't make shit. The higher up, the more important they are, and may get more comfortable accomodations, but are also in charge of a hell of a lot more. They personally get paid VERY little, if any at all. I'd like someone to clarify that, if they could (read: lebell or SM70 ), but I believe I am correct in that.

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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
Couldn't agree more. "Congress shall make no law establishing a national religion ..." Well, tax-exempt status sounds to me like a way for the government to decide what is and isn't a religion.
Actually, the wording explicitly says "national religion", mean no ONE, SINGLE official religion for the country. I mean, think of the framers- they came from a country in which there was ONE national religion, the Church of England, and all else was considered heathen. I believe this was their intention.

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