On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:06:43 -0500, flipper wrote:

On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:45:56 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:23:18 -0500, flipper wrote:

On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:34:36 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 16:07:18 +0930, "no one"
wrote:

anti religious are you ?

No. I could care less what people want to worship or salute. I just
have two rules...

(1) Don't try to do it in my face

(2) I shouldn't have to pay

You don't 'pay' a thing.

for your ignorance and intolerance

So much for your feint of "could care less what people want to worship
or salute."

I could care less that you're ignorant and intolerant ;-)

My favorite is "I just can't STAND people who are intolerant."

As for ignorance, "Know it alls" are damn irritating to those of us
who do.

Of course ;-)


by
giving you tax breaks.

Not paying what isn't owed is not a 'break'.

Property taxes?

"Non-profit" Businesses operated under the guise of religion?

Pastor's housing (and cars) provided free and not taxed as income?

And generally little or no income tax.?

Vatican Bank ?:-)

Pointing to what you imagine to be 'fakery' has no bearing on the
legitimate.

The fact of that matter is 'religion' is a matter of conscience and we
don't 'tax' immortal souls whether you believe they exist or not.


[snip]

You're missing/dodging the issue. We're giving tax breaks because we
misconscrew what separation of religion and state means... the
original intent was to avoid a state-sanctioned religion, specifically
like the Church of England. Now we sanction many "state religions".

We even give tax breaks for those that practice witchcraft... not that
I can really discern any difference between that practice and any
other religion. Religion is the balm for the self-insufficient.

We need to stop tax breaks... period!

...Jim Thompson
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