I wish these rules were enforced. Then maybe would hear less repub and religious bs.

From the viewpoint of this Australian who has seen the corruption of religion displayed in all its horrendousness in the police, in the schools and in the legislators in Australia in the early 1960s, the answer is obvious: the IRS is corrupt.

Religions like the religious followers are always victims!!!

The basic underlying principle of a theocracy is: create or embrace a god, cause everyone to be subjugated to that god, control the god you created, and you will control everyone subjugated to your god.

Money is the god of this world. They use belief systems like religion in order to help establish a system where they can better operate and deceive the people into accepting this controlling power.

That is why they push religion and why they don't hold religion accountable. They create an idea that they are above the rules and the laws they force everyone else to follow.

This notorious Catholic understood this concept: "FOR HOW SHALL WE FILL PEOPLE WITH BLIND FAITH in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward structure? Here, too, we can learn by the example of the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, COMES INTO COLLISION WITH EXACT SCIENCE AND RESEARCH, it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its dogmas - IT IS ONLY SUCH DOGMAS WHICH LEND TO THE WHOLE BODY THE CHARACTER OF A FAITH." [Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf" Vol. 2 Chapter 5]

"I have followed [the Church] in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected. The Church has realized that ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. THE FAITHFUL WILL SWALLOW IT WHOLE, SO LONG AS LOGICAL REASONING IS NEVER ALLOWED TO BE BROUGHT TO BEAR ON IT" [Adolf Hitler, from Rauschning, The Voice of Destruction, pp. 239-40]

""Take man's most fantastic invention - God."/

Right now as usual the Republicans have us between a rock and a hard place. Even if the Democrats hold on to Congress, enforcing the Johnson amendment would end up in the Supreme Court. Anyone here think that would turn out well for us?

During Republican administrations it was definitely not going to be done and even with a reasonable Supreme Court it wasn't done because politicians felt it would rev up the Republican base to a frenzy. I have a feeling they would get even angrier than the women that have lost their right to control their own bodies.

In a perfect world the rule of law should always be enforced and our constitution should be followed when it comes to separation of church and state.

Because Dems are afraid to confront religion, Xtian or Islamic, for fear that they will be encroaching on the constitutional Right to religious convictions. It's also because Dems have long been in bed with religion, as evidenced by our current POTUS being a devout Catholic, but unwilling to inseminate the public with mandates. We just coddle it, kiss Jesus' ass, and joyfully celebrate their holidays as fun (gleefully parting with money to enrich The Red Cross for proselytizing efforts). When it comes to god the Dems are almost as bad as the Xtian Theocrats.

Just like big pharma, big oil, the insurance industry and the multinational food conglomerates.

Just buy the right politicians.

Because the Johnson Amendment was little enforced for decades and after Bush Jr and Trump all but annulled it, the churches have pretty much been thumbing their noses at the whole idea.

ALL churches and religious groups should not have tax-exempt status.
So much for "law and order ".