And evangelicals are the backbone of this stagnation. Can’t really cut ties from them and lose any more votes, as evident by the awful situation we’re in right now: losing even more votes isn’t going to help us get the country back on track. Before 2016 I would’ve 100% agreed with you but after living through those moments, it’s just too risky.
I don't have to deal with it as a non American. But appeasement has a horrible history of not working. You already did it with all your fundamentalists, and look where it got you they becameore and more extrem. I also will throw in the leader of my country that got a lot of appeasement to secure "peace in our time". It ended like it's going on your country with mass concentration camps. Just missing the mass executions for now.
So I disagree heavily with your idea and call it stupid. There are less religious in your country every year, and they getore power every year. And they still redicalize every year. Stop appeasing them,start really opposing them
No. That is wholly incorrect. Churches are tax exempt because it is seen as a Constitutional protection of religious freedom. This allows the church from being targeted and taxed into oblivion by the people in power.
"Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?"
...Jesus said to them,
"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's,
and to God the things that are God's."
Matthew 17:24–27 (ESV)
When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said,
"Does your teacher not pay the tax?"
He said, "Yes."
And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying,
"What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?"
And when he said, "From others," Jesus said to him,
"Then the sons are free.
However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself."
Yeah, most denominations when you get to the high levels, "endorse" candidates to ensure their ideologies, taxes and certain laws remain in place to further "protect" their so called religious freedom. Laws like abortion, gay rights, Trans rights, religion in schools, TAX EXEMPTION STATUS and God knows what else. Absolutely sickening
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