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Tax the Churches and Give the Revenue to Hungry Children

by HANK PELLISSIER
Posted: December 12, 2011.

Print: Institute for Ethics in Emerging Technology

excerpt:

Ministers of mega-churches are rolling in millions of dollars in the USA, “fleecing their flocks” to buy lavish mansions, jets, and limousines. On Sundays they preach Christian charity in their temples of excess while tithing hypnotized parishioners—but do they themselves pay their fair share of taxes? Hell no. Christ Almighty, they do not. The hypocrite haranguers are pampered by the IRS; aided by loopholes so large one can easily drive a cathedral through.

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