The church should stay the HELL out of politics.
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The church should stay out of politics.
The church should stay out of education.
The church should stay out of moral judgementalism.
The church should stay out of the lives of children.
The church should stay out of defining the roles if women and men.
The church should stay out of issues of women's choice, such as abortion.
In fact, I can think of nothing the church SHOULD NOT stay out of.
Well said saved me a lot of typing.
You left choirboys off the list off that which the church should stay out of
According to the law, a church that supports a particular political position should lose its tax immunity.
Now you're sounding like a conservative Republican ... from a previous age!
"I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C" and "D." Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
Senator Barry Goldwater, Jr.
I agree, any infraction should revoke tax exempt status.
Their tax exempt status comes at a price of no participation in political issues. It's a condition that none of them are held to.
Some of my ancestors were Catholic. I loved a few of them, and distrusted the others, or they distrusted me. There is no humanity in Catholicism. They breed dogma, venomous distrust, and perpetuation of guilt in humans. So-called hell will happen by their encouragement of over-population, which will cause environmental destruction, worldwide hunger and thirst, and climate disasters. The greed, hunger for power, and patriarchy of Catholicism's teachings is the most virulent propaganda and mind-control on earth. IMO, It would be good for humanity if a lot of them just die off. But not the ones who actually love others.
The Catholic Church is perhaps the most corrupt organization on the planet.
I think that's exactly what they're trying to do.
The church doesn't understand what politics even mean to them. All they think of is what sin is to them. Even with politicians getting involved... so they should stay out of the way.
They are both parasites, and they both excel at spreading bull shit. The two together are a sure recipe for disaster.
That'll never happen. Politics and religion are tied at the hips.
It didn't used to be that way in this country, the first nation to craft a constitution that never once mentions God.
This is the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral in New York City. Without the Johnson Amendment (the one Trump said he will no longer enforce) think of how much money Russia could funnel into his campaign through the church.
There is a part of me that just laughs at this crap. I can hear some joke from my parents about doing something naughty as a kid: "wait until your father finds out about this, then you are really in for it young man." Of course, here, father = magic sky daddy. And they are both shouting it at each other... kinda kinky if you over think it.