It’s boring to me since it’s very easy for me to see the faults of a religion that I have no association with.
I am wondering if there are a lot of exmuslim people here or if it’s people raised in a christian world that just have a specific gripe with islam.
I was raised in a part of the world mostly shaped by christianity and so I was hoping to see more examination of that.
Being that more people than ever are getting online and becoming more able to access technology, we are seeing how Izlam is the world’s biggest religion next to Xtianity. This should be very alarming, not because something other than Xtianity is so big, but because these mother fuckers are very forward in saying they want us dead and to rule the world with a sharia fist.
i won’t defend the religion but you are mistaking a majority of muslims with a minority of maniacal hotheads. Most muslims don’t give a damn about your life or death and a great majority of them don’t want to live under sharia either.
we should learn to hate the religion without hating people and not confuse the two.
You talk like Muslim is a race. It is not. And I am talking about ALL Muslims, just like I’m talking about ALL Xtians. They may not say it to your face, but they aim to take over the world. The reasonable ones are naive and will be culled like the rest of us. This isn’t a joke. It is not some conspiracy theory. It’s what is happening. Look at the all-muslim city counsel in Michigan. Look at the Evangelists elected all I’ve the country. Fuck religion. Any and all. And brother, let me tell you, they want us dead. Well, the feeling is mutual.
you should go talk to some muslims. I seriously advise you to. If you can, travel. Heal yourself.
what you write indeed sounds like a conspiracy theory.
Do you know what Taqqiya is? I’m not surprised the people trying to spread their religion or blend in with a new population are willing to lie to you, they’re instructed to.
who is instructing them? Still conspiracy 🤦
people are just trying to get by
Oh fuck off.
no, thank you.
Believers of any religion come in exactly two varieties: extremists and those who provide aid and cover for extremists. The nice old lady down the street doing a bake sale and donating the proceeds to her church is still supporting an institution that hides child molesters, robs the community of their time, money and critical thinking skills and advocates for harmful public policy that strips people of their rights. That last piece is supposed to be prohibited by 501(c)(3) rules in the US but I’m not holding my breath waiting to see those enforced.
The only wing of the government that enforces the separation of church and state is the IRS. If you can send them proof of political action or anything that violates 501©(3), the IRS will want that tax money SOOOO FAST.
The FFRF has been trying. I checked a few of the ones in the list and still see them listed as 501(c)(3) organizations so either there’s stuff happening behind the scenes or their letter went straight to the circular file.
A little off topic but if you want to get (c) rather than ©, you can use a backslash before either or both the open or close parenthesis and it’ll be skipped by the markdown parser. It should look like this in the editor: \(c), (c\) or \(c\).
I was more meaning on an individual church basis. If you can get pictures of your local church saying “vote Trump”, then that specific church can lose their status. No church can survive it.
Can you find any examples of a church losing their 501(c)(3) designation or other tax exemptions due to violations of the Johnson amendment aside from the one back in 1992 (“Church at Pierce Creek”, see also Branch Ministries v. Rossotti)? Revocation was in 1995 for their actions in 1992 and the decision was upheld in 2000 after the church made its appeals. I could be missing something but that’s the only case I could dig up where the IRS has followed through.
From what I can tell, the IRS has very little interest in pursuing this sort of thing once the word “church” hits the paperwork. Would love to be proven wrong though.
I guess I misspoke and it depends on how you define “losing status”. These churches have accountants who must recommend that they not break the law.
https://www.newsweek.com/pastor-greg-locke-claims-he-gave-tax-exempt-status-church-1709615
go talk to her. Ask her why she is doing what she does. Communicate with that nice old lady instead of writing in an atheist bubble of an online community.
Just because I do one doesn’t mean I can’t do the other.