drey's Blog

drey, that up there ^ would be the alias for someone who once pretended to be your staunchest supporter. she has now "turned to the dark side".

try not to be offended by her, all she is after is stirring things up and making an a@@ out of herself.

nice to see you again!

churches are normally non profit organizations. (501C) even though they appear to be profitable, most churches DO charitable works. they fund and support many endeavors that contain no "return on the investment".

many, if not all churches support missionaries here and abroad. they also support many poor families in the way of monetary assistance, food, housing, etc.

as a 501C, their tax returns must show no profit. any money they "make" must be spent somewhere else, at some point.

yes, gorby, there ARE churches that have crossed the line with politics. some are obvious and blatant and some are not so much. and yes, the churches that have crossed that line should lose their 501C status.

Here is evidence that a Public School education isn’t worth much. Where to begin?
A primary reason that Churches are not taxed is because the Founding Fathers (George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and the rest) saw how government would use their (over reaching) powers to control what the Church leaders said and did. One of those tools was taxation. So the brilliant Founding Fathers chose to separate the Church from the power of the government by allowing them to be tax exempt. It was freedom for religious groups until Democrat Lyndon Johnson put restraints on free speech through the tax code. In 1954, on July 2 of that year, Johnson proposed an amendment to a bill revising the tax code. That amendment inserted the language prohibiting 501(c)(3) organizations from endorsing or opposing candidates. Prior to that time, voters looked to their religious leaders for endorsements. After the Johnson amendment a religious organization can lose their tax exempt status if they use political speech. In other works, Johnson returned the power of government to control the Church that our Founding Fathers wanted to restrict. But that is what Liberal democrats like LBJ do.

I think churches today are for profit! You see them on tv always living high on the hog. with the fancy house and cars, planes and trips. becuase they spend the profit and do not pay taxes! I think it is wrong and they should start paying!

ya drey, there ARE some of those. especially on the TV.........and yes, they sure are looking like they live high on the hog (so to speak)

if i were you drey, i would just ignore and delete miss snikers..........she's only after no good, all the time, everywhere she shows up, the room starts to stink. LOL

btw drey, please accept my humble apology for being such a bitch with you in the past.

i have no excuse for it.........i am sorry.

Not only do churches not pay taxes on the money that they rake in but they don't pay property taxes on the property that they own either.

"So the brilliant Founding Fathers chose to separate the Church from the power of the government by allowing them to be tax exempt"-Hybrid Talk

Seperation of Church and State is supposed to protect BOTH government from church, and church from government.

But it seams you are very hypocritical on this issue- becuase you often say that "there is no such thing as the seperation of church and state"

Can't have it both ways!

Every war I remember have something to do with religion. why and why do we die in war and pay tax money for war if they have to do with religion and churches never pay tax. I wonder how much money our country would have if they did pay tax like we do.

He is another one and I remember another man who travel the world with a 100 person staff and stay in $10,000 a night fancy top of the line hotel all billed to his church. He also fly with his own tailor and chef. I wish I could remember who name it was on 60 minutes a year ago. He has a foreign accent short with dark hair and is on TV all the time in real fancy fine suits. The story also said he was worth over 100 million.