Let them lose their tax-exempt status! That would hit them where it hurts them most.
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This is my cue that I need to stop looking at Lemmy for a while. Guess I'll fire up a game and listen to a podcast. See ya later, folks.
Currently, the law prohibits political campaign activity by charities and churches by defining a 501(c)(3) organization as one "which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office." IRS.gov
Lord of Hosts World Outreach Inc. in Omaha, NE is a 501(c)(3) organization. So what they are doing here is categorically illegal. Why does it never seem shit like this is investigated? Why isn’t the headline even mentioning this is a crime? What the FUCK.
edit: How do I, as an individual, get this into court? I want the right thing to happen here. I don’t believe in “tax the church” because there are plenty of religious adjacent institutions that employ non-religious individuals who provide powerful needed services and jobs to their communities. But this is crippling that good will and leaving this specific church untaxed leaves precedent for a continuation of the long cycle of abuse.
I'll admit it took some doing to find.
thanks lol i actually found this yesterday and im just complaining out of frustration 😭 i appreciate your answer though ill try to submit it and i encourage others to do so as well if they see there is evidence to do so
Trump is absolutely the antichrist
Funny you say that, because I can't count how many times I've heard evangelicals talking about the antichrist every time a Democrat gets elected. But Trump is the right hand of the Messiah, of course. Lol. I can't believe this is real life.
The antichrist will subvert the faithful into following them.
They paying their taxes?
"The hand of God is on him and he cannot be stopped."
So in the 2020 election where Trump lost was the 'hand of god' not on Trump and that's why he lost or was 'hand of god', all-powerful, beaten by the electorate?
Which is it? Was the 'hand of god' on Biden in 2020 instead, or was the all-powerful god powerless to stop Biden getting elected?
The hand of god was on him but the hand of satan rigged the election. Duh.
So either the hand of god isn't very powerful, or the hand of satan is much more powerful?
Hey now, people pay these preachers good money so they don’t have to think, much less think logically.
Was it the hand of God doing all the pussy-grabbing? Maybe we were too hard on Trump about that. Perhaps he was the one banging those porn stars and it wasn't Trump cheating on the mother of his newborn child?
“God works in mysterious ways”
God works in monstrous ways...
“God works in mysterious ways”
'god's will is that Trump lose re-election bids. As it was before, as it will be again. Who are we to question the will of god?'
He can’t even hold the Bible right side up. SMH.
My mother has posted multiple times how god can even use a donkey and that the man doesn’t have to be perfect for god to use him. She’s completely hand waved away the fact that trump is a paragon of the anti-Christ because ‘god can use anyone’. She’s also convinced that all the conflict in the US is just signs of the times that the second coming is imminent.
Evangelicals literally don’t care what trump has done or will do. Trump was right that he could shoot someone in the head in the middle of the street and his supporters wouldn’t care.
I genuinely believe there is a disturbingly substantial portion of the right wing that scientifically recognizes the threat posed by the climate crisis but believes it's just God's instrument for the end times, so not only is it not a problem but it's actually a good thing to perpetuate.
I had a chick tract with that exact message left on my car recently, it was very disturbing. The tract’s solution to global warming was war in Israel so Armageddon happens and we all get raptured away from this trashed planet. I didn’t keep it, but I found a copy on their site. I am sharing an archive link because I don’t want them getting more traffic and thinking they need to print even more of these.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240323153015/https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=50
I've seen enough of them justifying with some version of god using flawed vessels to send his message. Such anti-thinking bullshit.
It's amazing what these people will overlook for their single issue: abortion. Of course, this strain of religious grifters have long been entirely devoid of ethics. As far as 'pro-life' though, they're giving Trump credit for something orchestrated by many other people.
Trump being the pro life candidate is still hilarious because I 1000% guarantee you he's paid for multiple abortions
Trump paid for something, though? Maybe..... at the least he surely demanded that women have abortions and and probably threatened them over it.
It has been legally shown he paid for one, which is higher than average.
Makes sense. My favorite part in the bible is when Jesus, upon amassing tremendous wealth, chiding the poor, and violating the sanctity of marriage multiple times, is persecuted by the Romans. Second coming anyone?
Blessed are the pussy-grabbers. For when you are a star, they let you do it.
Thanks for this line..
Gross