True, but when you find out half the local Greenpeace chapter is actually throwing toxic waste out the door and PETA is having a bullroast you tend to think of them as assholes 
Check out Charley Crockett.
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Aaaaah, PETA. People Eating Tasty Animals.
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I donāt believe I said āonly faith-basedā. I was trying to say the ones I met up with were faith-based. Samaritanās Purse, Rapid Response Chaplains, pretty much every State Baptist Association has a disaster relief program. Godās Pit Crew. Even the Mormons show up sometimes. As for āhateā maybe not hate, but in some of these posts, I aināt exactly been āfeeling the loveā. Have a blessed day, sincerely and I pray you never need disaster relief services.
So, just exempt those groups from sales taxes on the hardware they purchase for relief purposes. That is how Florida, Texas, and Virginia handle it for the rest of taxpayers who buy hurricane prep stuff.
Churches have become land holding, investment corporations with multi-millionaire CEOs. Tax them like any other business is, or should be.
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I think you do not know much about churches or the charitable work they do. What about childrenās homes, medical ministries, homeless shelters, food pantries, āsoupā kitchens, and many other ministries churches run, support, maintain, operate and provide personnel?
Let those functions register as standalone charities and meet all the requirements as such. Church Inc. and its property should be taxed like any other business.
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Like Steamer said, if they want to run a tax-exempt charity they can, nothing stopping them.
You forgot systematic child sexual abuse.
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You forgot blowing up family planning clinics and murdering people that work in them, bombing the Olympics in Atlanta by a member of the Christian Identity group, Jim Jones followers suicides, Christians refusing to vaccinate children for āreligious reasonsā and a few others. If one wants to advertise the good āChristiansā do at least advertise your condemnation of the bad they do. Lest one appear to be like the biblical Pharisee.
AS Gandhi said āI like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.ā
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I see the Amish are collectively far healthier than the āvaccinatedā population. Thatās a sign, for me at least.
They arenāt notable mariners though.
Christianity teaches people to be more Christ like.
It would solve a lot of problems if that 30 percent of the world population were mythical beings instead of hypocritical breeders.
As in unreal? Not existing? Occurring in myths?
Or alternative type swivel-eyed loon with blue hair and nose rings?
I agree those shouldnāt be allowed to breed.
Wellā¦ my God speaks to me through my conscience, and my conscience is refined through reflecting on my shadow and the shadows of others as I hold up the spirit of adventure. So from my point of view almost every sailor Iāve met is a religious sailor whatever they call themselves. Respect.
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As just that, as in non-corporeal. Instead of warring, greedy, hypocritical fraudsters and parasites who thrive on the fears and prejudices of their cult followers while leading them to poverty, war, and death.
By the way, swivel-eyed loons with blue hair and nose rings cause less damage to society than those carefully coiffed and elaborately robed con-men who build palaces dedicated to fleecing the gullible by claiming to represent some mythical entity.
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