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Tax Religion - Antitheists

Religions with 501(c)3 status are not supposed to engage in politics in anyway. They can do certain activities but specifically must not endorse any particular candidate. They can voice being anti-abortion, but not attack a candidate supporting abortion.

Religions are not required to apply for 501(c)3 status and can enjoy benefits over and beyond that of the registered 501(c)3s. This is where it gets slightly more complicated. Many churches and similar organisations recognise this and see the 501(c)3 as restrictive, with them not understanding why some religious organisations do apply.

I think it is clear why many have different departments/sub sections with differing accounting statuses.

In this video he speaks of religion being irrelevant to politics.

This is just not the case as $390 000 000 is spent annually by the religious orgs and the benefit even if restrictive in being 501(c)3 would be contributions being tax deductible.

It's going to take some digging to understand why some have part of their orgs 501(c)3 and offering their contributors tax deductible benefits and yet still having departments enjoying the tax exempt status by default and without restriction, but also without the benefit of tax deductible contributions.

It will be a scam/or loophole where they receive with the left with all deductible benefits, yet ACT as exempt and free from restriction.


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The long and the short of the difference is as the church sees it:

***The First Amendment clearly places the church outside the jurisdiction of the civil government: Congress shall make NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof.’***
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When a church accepts the 501c3 status, that church:

· Waives its freedom of speech
· Waives its freedom of religion
· Waives its right to influence legislators and the legislation they craft.
· Waives its constitutionally guaranteed rights.
· Is no longer free to speak to the vital issues of the day.
· It’s controlled with fear, if it doesn’t following IRS guidelines it will lose its tax-exempt status.
· Becomes a State-Church.
One need not look far to see that the church’s acceptance of the 501c3, and its significant restrictions, has had devastating consequences to not only the church, but to the entire nation.

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If a religion does breach the rules of 501(c)3
Denial does not infringe upon the free exercise of religion, as was highlighted in 1983 at the Supreme Court: Regan v. Taxation With Representation of Washington, “a legislature’s decision not to subsidize the exercise of a fundamental right does not infringe the right.”
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=461&invol=540

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After studying the Pew report I thought it would be easy to expose those religious organizations breaching their obligations under the rules of a 501(c)3
I was surprised to learn, where I thought a breach may have occured, the religious organization had several subsections incorporated under the one umbrella. One section registered as 501(c)3 and free to accept donations and monies whilst all tax deductible benefits are enjoyed by those donating, yet still having a subsection not requiring the submitting of accounts as exempt automatically and also free from the restrictions the 501(c)3) places upon them.  This is exploiting a loophole somewhere, and a loophole we need to get to the bottom of.
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With the US religions, the loophole that needs exploring would seem to be where religious organizations and their supporters can donate and receive as a 501(c)3 and enjoy the tax deductible benefits.
Yet still act and engage politically under a different department of the religion as tax exempt by default.
It would seem through clever manipulation and accounting they are exploiting the best of both worlds and this would go a long way to explaining why church and state separation is/seems a one way street.

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Sorry if you're a non windows user, to watch any film on veoh you need their player which is a perfectly safe application but only compatible with the windows operating system. / OR so I thought, Apparently it's not restricted to windows users only, An Apple man has Firefox and a couple of other browsers and he had no problem with it at all. (I can't verify this)

Personally I uncheck the toolbar option and any other extras it may want to install when installing the veoh player add on.. Veoh shows five minutes before requiring their add on. When installing it, you are given the option once or twice if you would like their toolbar included, be sure to uncheck the sub options below each main no, if of course you don't want their toolbar.

Paul:
Catholic News Service says:
"The film contains an explicit rejection of Christian faith and morals, endorsement of homosexual acts, nonmarital sexual activity and petty theft, a benign view of drug use, occasional gory violence, a few uses of profanity and pervasive rough and crude language. The Catholic News Service classification is O morally offensive."

 Very strong immoral atheist worldview with very strong evolutionary elements as alien character mocks people’s belief in God instead of evolution, anti-biblical and anti-Christian portrayal of characters who are portrayed as simple-minded stereotypes, and Christian character thanks alien for setting her free from belief in God, plus several homosexual jokes and references and alien character proudly says everyone on his planet is bisexual; 101 obscenities, 10 profanities and comic art drawing of alien making obscene gesture shows several times throughout the movie; strong, often comic, violence includes car crashes, alien brings a dead bird back to life only to eat it.







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Cosmos Carl Sagan

Cosmos Carl Sagan

When Cosmos was first broadcast in 1980, our world--and the context of Carl Sagan's eloquent "personal journey"--was a different place. The late Dr. Sagan would be pleased to witness the cooling of the Cold War, the continued exploration of space, and ongoing efforts to curb our destructive dependence on fossil fuels. For Sagan's series is far more than a guided tour through "billions and billions" of stars and galaxies. It remains a profound plea for the unity of humankind, for the recognition that "we are a way for the universe to know itself," with an obligation to know our origin, our place in the universe, and our future potential.
In the course of 13 fascinating hours, Cosmos spans its own galaxy of topics to serve Sagan's theme, each segment deepening our understanding of how we got from there (simple microbes in the primordial mud) to here (space-faring civilization in the 21st century). In his "ship of the imagination," Sagan guides us to the farthest reaches of space and takes us back into the history of scientific inquiry, from the ancient library of Alexandria to the NASA probes of our neighboring planets. Upon this vast canvas Sagan presents the "cosmic calendar," placing the 15-billion-year history of the universe into an accessible one-year framework, then filling it with a stunning chronology of events, both interstellar and earthbound.

From the lives of the stars to creation theories, functions of the human brain, and the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Cosmos asks big questions. When appropriate, Sagan offers big answers, or asks still bigger--and yes, even spiritual--questions at the boundaries of science and religion. What's most remarkable about Cosmos is that it remains almost entirely fresh, with few updates needed to the science that Sagan so passionately celebrates. It is no exaggeration to say that Cosmos--for all the debate it may continue to provoke--is a vital document for humanity at a pivotal crossroads of our history. --Jeff Shannon (Amazon Editorial)







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