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Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 9:22 am
by Chizzang
So one Washington State Community Organizer (Republicans most hated phrase)
Has threatened the State Legislators that he will start a "Church of Atheism"
If they call Atheism a Religion ONE MORE TIME
The next Political leader to refer to Atheism as Religion might just get what they are asking for...
A TAX FREE RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION based on the tenants of disbelief

Oh the irony
Re: Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 9:33 am
by 89Hen
Again
Re: Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 9:51 am
by Chizzang
89Hen wrote:Again
What again..?

Re: Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 10:02 am
by 89Hen
Your love of churches being tax free organizations.
Re: Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 10:06 am
by Chizzang
89Hen wrote:Your love of churches being tax free organizations.
The Church of Atheism is about to be built my good man
Please just keep calling Atheism a religion - they need your support
Re: Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 4:50 am
by kalm
Why should churches be tax exempt at this point?
There are businesses more philanthropic than some churches.
Nice short thread. Not much to argue with.
Re: Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:56 am
by CAA Flagship
kalm wrote:Why should churches be tax exempt at this point?
There are businesses more philanthropic than some churches.
Nice short thread. Not much to argue with.
Is "this point" any different than other points?
Re: Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 8:20 am
by SuperHornet
The word you're looking for, Chizzy, is TENETS.
TENANT = Resident.
TENET = Belief.
Incorrect word choice often RADICALLY changes the meaning.

Re: Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 8:38 am
by kalm
CAA Flagship wrote:kalm wrote:Why should churches be tax exempt at this point?
There are businesses more philanthropic than some churches.
Nice short thread. Not much to argue with.
Is "this point" any different than other points?
Yes...but they probably never should have been exempt to begin with .
Re: Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 11:57 am
by Ivytalk
What is Jill Stein's stance on this hot-button issue?

Re: Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 12:38 pm
by CID1990
Chizzang wrote:89Hen wrote:Your love of churches being tax free organizations.
The Church of Atheism is about to be built my good man
Please just keep calling Atheism a religion - they need your support
When atheists start filling the offering plates at these churches then it will be.... nah, it'll still be yawn
Re: Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 4:56 pm
by JohnStOnge
Well, it's possible to construe atheism as a religion. "Religion," as is the case with many words, has a number of definitions. But one of them stated at
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/religion" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; is this:
the body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices:
The "practices" thing is a bit of a fly in the ointment but one could certainly construe atheism as fitting that particular definition. Especially since so many atheists are so devoted to trying to argue that the idea of intrinsic morality is consistent with atheist belief.
Re: Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 6:50 pm
by kalm
JohnStOnge wrote:Well, it's possible to construe atheism as a religion. "Religion," as is the case with many words, has a number of definitions. But one of them stated at
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/religion" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; is this:
the body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices:
The "practices" thing is a bit of a fly in the ointment but one could certainly construe atheism as fitting that particular definition. Especially since so many atheists are so devoted to trying to argue that the idea of intrinsic morality is consistent with atheist belief.
Or with the accumulated wisdom of mankind's experience.
Or that cooperation and democracy are present elsewhere in nature.
Re: Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 4:41 am
by kalm
Oklahoma AG endorses distribution of satanic literature to elementary school kids.
Silly Chrisitians….
Proving that “the road to hell is paved with good intentions,” Oklahoma’s attorney general may have inadvertently opened public school doors to Satanists wishing to distribute literature to students when he defended a teacher’s right to hand out Bibles to her third-grade students.
In a letter sent to Oklahoma school superintendents, Attorney General Scott Pruitt promised to defend religious freedom against “veiled legal threats” over the distribution of Bibles on campus, according to Tulsa World.
AG Pruitt rode to the school’s rescue on Tuesday, writing, “Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion. It is a challenging time in our country for those who believe in religious liberty. Our religious freedoms are under constant attack from a variety of groups who seek to undermine our constitutional rights and threaten our founding principles.”
Pruitt’s stirring defense of religious freedom likely puts him on a collision course with the Church of Ahriman, a Satanist church in Oklahoma City, which has asked for permission to distribute Satanist literature at the same elementary school.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/okla ... iterature/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 6:48 am
by YoUDeeMan
kalm wrote:Oklahoma AG endorses distribution of satanic literature to elementary school kids.
Silly Chrisitians….
Proving that “the road to hell is paved with good intentions,” Oklahoma’s attorney general may have inadvertently opened public school doors to Satanists wishing to distribute literature to students when he defended a teacher’s right to hand out Bibles to her third-grade students.
In a letter sent to Oklahoma school superintendents, Attorney General Scott Pruitt promised to defend religious freedom against “veiled legal threats” over the distribution of Bibles on campus, according to Tulsa World.
AG Pruitt rode to the school’s rescue on Tuesday, writing, “Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion. It is a challenging time in our country for those who believe in religious liberty. Our religious freedoms are under constant attack from a variety of groups who seek to undermine our constitutional rights and threaten our founding principles.”
Pruitt’s stirring defense of religious freedom likely puts him on a collision course with the Church of Ahriman, a Satanist church in Oklahoma City, which has asked for permission to distribute Satanist literature at the same elementary school.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/okla ... iterature/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Freedom of religion!
Oooops...I mean freedom of MY religion...not yours!

Re: Tax free Church of Atheism..?
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 7:01 am
by Pwns
Maybe the woman handing out Bibles to her class was just trying to culturally enrich her non-Christian students. We aren't supposed to assume all of our kids are all Christian, amiright?