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DEBATE: RELIGIONS SHOULD NOT QUALIFY AS CHARITIES
Posted by: ThePope
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Currently in both the US and Britain churches and other religious organisations qualify for charitable status. Why?
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RELIGIONS SHOULD NOT QUALIFY AS CHARITIES
What benefit do churches or religious organisations really provide?
An organisation is set up which dupes people into giving it money, persuades them of various extremely dubious and unscientific premises about the world, and you therefore give it a tax break. Something about that situation seems wrong to me.
Religions and religious organisations do considerable charity work. Plus, they have a generally beneficial effect on society: why not assist that?
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RELIGIONS SHOULD NOT QUALIFY AS CHARITIES
The money could be spent elsewhere
Admittedly some religions do undertake charitable work. However they inevitably also waste at least some of their money on 'glorifying' a being/beings who is/are supposedly omnipotent and therefore quite capable of 'glorifying' himself/themselves. Why not spend it on charities, schools or hospitals which are far more likely to spend 100% of the money on something more useful than cassocks.
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|17:02, 08 May 08
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|17:09, 08 May 08
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