BidenPresident
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Trump is the anti-Christ.
Iowa’s Christian conservatives follow their faith, and some say it leads to Trump
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Trump is the anti-Christ.
If they seek and are granted tax exempt status as a public charity.
BidenPresident
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Federal law makes it illegal to assess property taxes on churches.
Agreed, if they have IRS tax exempt status.
BidenPresident
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All real churches have federal law preventing them from being assessed property tax.
Phyllis Diller
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but he definitly is.
BidenPresident
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How is Jesus a political figure?
Phyllis Diller
Was it me?
he was murdered for speaking truth to power.
like all heroes.
ghandi.
jfk
rfk
mlk
even malcolm x
BidenPresident
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He was killed because his fellow Jews offered him up to the Romans.
Agreed, but only the IRS tax exempt status determines whether they are a "real" church exempt from taxes.
And, whether they qualify under laws exempting religious organizations from certain actions (smoking peyote, drinking Hoasco tea, paying Social Security, compulsory school attendance......
BidenPresident
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Why do threads I start immediately go off on boring tangents. Oh well.
Phyllis Diller
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BidenPresident
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Israel was controlled by Rome.
Phyllis Diller
Was it me?
they're only boring to you because you don't care about actual discussions.
you're just trump and trumper smearing 24/7.
BidenPresident
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Topic of thread is not about tax law. Look at the first post.
Phyllis Diller
Was it me?
led by an emperor considered a god, with his own cult.
Tradition of sovereign as high priest
The practice of religious and secular authority united in the sovereign has a long history. In ancient Athens, the Archon basileus was the principal religious dignitary of the state; according to legend, and as indicated in his title of "Basileus" (meaning "king"), he was supposed to inherit the religious functions of the king of Athens in earlier times.[27]
Eastern traditions, from the ancient Egyptian to the Japanese, carried the concept even further, according their sovereigns demigod status.
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Pontifex_Maximus#Tradition_of_sovereign_as_high_priest
BidenPresident
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Rome did not give a shit about Jewish religion.
Phyllis Diller
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but it was still a pagan theocracy,
and judea was a theocratic subject state.
saying there's no politics in the jesus story is fucking retarded.
BidenPresident
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What is the politics? Jews wanted to have Jesus executed. So what?
Again: What does this even have to do with topic of the thread?
[FONT="]Under the substantial part test, a church or religious organization that conducts excessive lobbying activity in any taxable year may lose its tax-exempt status, resulting in all its income being subject to tax.
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https://www.irs.gov › irs-pdf
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[h=3]Tax Guide for Churches and Religious Organizations - IRS[/h]