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  Tax-exempt Status of Churches and the Gay Marriage Decision

  by lambsbottom in

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  it will be interesting to see what will happen with the "beloved" 501c3 tax exempt status which the churches hold so dearly onto.

  the first-century christians met in homes.

  they did not have exemption from taxes to the governments.

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  As an atheist I can acknowledge the wisdom of giving churches tax free status even though I don't want them to have special privileges. The concept is based on the ideal of separating church and state and requires something from the religion in exchange for their tax free status.

  It amounts to this: Churches don't pay taxes and in exchange they don't get involved in politics.

  President Bush (Jr.) actually had the IRS investigate a church because it was speaking out against the Iraq war. Meanwhile conservative churches, particularly in the South and Mid-west are politicizing with impunity.
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  Is the Org Putting Elders in the Firing Line?

  by The Searcher in

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  in view of the conti verdict of negligence by the org, are elders who are selected by the c.o.

  now in a precarious position?

  "charity trustees face potential liabilities in a number of ways.

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  What Road Would You Choose---IF?

  by John Aquila in

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  say you could go back in time to when you were 15 years old.

  no watchtower in your life.

  but the experience you have now you could keep.

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  I would become a paleoanthropologist. Our origins as a species has always fascinated me.

  And I would get married young in spite of my career.
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  Captive virgins, polygamy and sex slaves: What marriage would look like if we actually followed the Bible

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

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  a friend linked this on his facebook page, sharing:http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/captive-virgins-polygamy-and-sex-slaves-what-marriage-would-look-like-if-we-actually-followed-the-bible/one quote that stood out for me:"granted, sometimes even decent people do get sucked into a sort of text worship that i call bibliolatry, and bible worship can make a persons moral priorities as archaic and cruel as those of the iron age tribesmen who wrote the texts.

  (i once listened, horrified, while a sweet, elderly pair of jehovahs witnesses rationalized the old testament slaughter of children with the same words nazis used to justify the slaughter of jewish babies.

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  Village Idiot: So why did God allow barbaric laws to be part of his "inspired" book?

  Hold Me-Thrill Me: They were not "barbaric" at the time.

  That's known as moral relativism. Does your god change his mind as to what is good or evil from millennium to millennium?
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  Captive virgins, polygamy and sex slaves: What marriage would look like if we actually followed the Bible

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

  1. jw
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  a friend linked this on his facebook page, sharing:http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/captive-virgins-polygamy-and-sex-slaves-what-marriage-would-look-like-if-we-actually-followed-the-bible/one quote that stood out for me:"granted, sometimes even decent people do get sucked into a sort of text worship that i call bibliolatry, and bible worship can make a persons moral priorities as archaic and cruel as those of the iron age tribesmen who wrote the texts.

  (i once listened, horrified, while a sweet, elderly pair of jehovahs witnesses rationalized the old testament slaughter of children with the same words nazis used to justify the slaughter of jewish babies.

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  Hold Me-Thrill Me, "Not everything in the "Law of Moses" was directly from God."

  So why did God allow barbaric laws to be part of his "inspired" book?
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  Captive virgins, polygamy and sex slaves: What marriage would look like if we actually followed the Bible

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a friend linked this on his facebook page, sharing:http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/captive-virgins-polygamy-and-sex-slaves-what-marriage-would-look-like-if-we-actually-followed-the-bible/one quote that stood out for me:"granted, sometimes even decent people do get sucked into a sort of text worship that i call bibliolatry, and bible worship can make a persons moral priorities as archaic and cruel as those of the iron age tribesmen who wrote the texts.

  (i once listened, horrified, while a sweet, elderly pair of jehovahs witnesses rationalized the old testament slaughter of children with the same words nazis used to justify the slaughter of jewish babies.

  )"

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  http://www.scribd.com/doc/95804194/A-Most-Evil-and-Stupid-Book-The-Bible-s-Moral-Depravity-Contradictions-and-Absurdities

  Exterminate thy neighbors:

  • Men only at other times. Women and children are plunder: Deuteronomy 20:10-18.

  • Everyone except virgin girls when the mood strikes: Numbers 31:17-18.

  • Take captive brides after killing their mother and father: Deuteronomy 21:10-14.

  How the Israelites treated their ladies:

  • If a single woman was raped, her rapist was punished by being forced to marry her, never divorce her and paying a fine to her father: Deuteronomy 22:28-29.

  • Women got their hands cut off for defending their husbands if they yanked his attacker's testicles: Deuteronomy 25:11-12.

  • If an engaged or married woman was raped she was to be executed if she failed to scream: Deuteronomy 22:23-24.

  • A woman had to prove her virginity or be stoned to death: Deuteronomy. 22:13-21.

  • A man could sell his daughter into permanent slavery: Exodus 21:7-11.
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  Remember Going Out In Field Service Before Thursday and Friday's Heat-Stroke Convention at Dodger Stadium?

  by The1975Blues in

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  2. beliefs

  i don't think the kids will remember going out in field service at your convention's city location helping the fiends do their territory.

  on top of the horrendous heat-stroke sitting at dodger stadium we had to preach earlier in the week!

  i heard some elderly witnesses speaking about "those were the good old days they thought" the grand old time they had while visiting the city of los angeles!

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  I witnessed a bizarre situation at one of the Dodger Stadium assemblies. A mother and her child, exposed to the scorching sunlight, had umbrellas over their heads. The child's umbrella was completely transparent!

  In another convention also at Dodger Stadium I saw a person suffering from seizures being led out on a stretcher with a brush in her mouth.
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  Remember Going Out In Field Service Before Thursday and Friday's Heat-Stroke Convention at Dodger Stadium?

  by The1975Blues in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't think the kids will remember going out in field service at your convention's city location helping the fiends do their territory.

  on top of the horrendous heat-stroke sitting at dodger stadium we had to preach earlier in the week!

  i heard some elderly witnesses speaking about "those were the good old days they thought" the grand old time they had while visiting the city of los angeles!

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  coalize: "One stupid question : what's Dodger stadium?"

  The sports stadium where I got baptized. In the 1970s they used to have conventions numbering up to 50,000.
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  You too, invent your "new light"

  by coalize in

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  i had this idea of topic when john aquila made me laugh in one of his post when he said : new light!the governing body has the right to have sex with all the new virgins that get baptized before they get married.. and then i've decided to open this topic to ask this (stupid but funny) question : if you was in the gb, what's the "new light you will want to fight for?

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  34 Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. 35 If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church. - 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 New International Version

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  4 Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. 5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is the same as having her head shaved. 6 For if a woman does not cover her head, she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should cover her head. - 1 Corinthians 11:4-6 New International Version
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  You too, invent your "new light"

  by coalize in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i had this idea of topic when john aquila made me laugh in one of his post when he said : new light!the governing body has the right to have sex with all the new virgins that get baptized before they get married.. and then i've decided to open this topic to ask this (stupid but funny) question : if you was in the gb, what's the "new light you will want to fight for?

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