The Church and Money

I just came back from a vacation, so sorry for the long delay between blogs.

Religions, especially Christianity and Islam, have too many rights.

Let’s say you open a business.
This business is called The Church of Megatronism. It opens its doors every Wednesday and invites anyone to come inside and listen to you talk to them out of a book you call holy. You also invent a few things along the way and people believe you and think that it is written in the book, because they don’t actually read it. To make sure you can eat and sleep, you end each sermon by asking for small donation from each of the members. You remind them that the holy book tells all people to give 3, 14159% of their salary to Megatron. Because Megatron likes pi. Then, when the Government sends a form for you to fill in regarding your income, you tick the little box which says:
Religious Organisation (Tax Free)
You say whatever you please, you ask money for it, and then you do not pay tax?!

This should change. Immediately.

Just think of the money going to waste. And what is this money used for? Paying the theologists who live in a free, government provided home nearby. Sending missionaries on expensive trips to other parts of the world where they give starving people a bible. For uneducated children, they build a church.

Read this article, it’s not very long and it is extremely humorous: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46226

Jesus himself said: “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s. Render unto God what is God’s.” (Matthew 22:21)
The point of this sentence is that the Lord demands your soul and your time, while the government demands your money. If you want to earn money, a materialistic thing, then you should pay tax. If you want to earn everlasting life, you should believe in Jesus. Then why are religious organisations tax-free? The Church grew power hungry and demanded more. The church became exactly that which Jesus fought against: a corrupt organisation with materialistic goals. Things are changing, but because of the extremely corrupt past, things are as they are.

And they get this money because they make people feel guilty if they don’t give their money to the church for no reason whatsoever. How are donations to the church different from begging? Think about it this way: There is a large organisation of motivational speakers. Normally, a very good speaker gets paid more, and a bad speaker gets less work. It follows capitalism. But with this “holy” organisation of motivational speakers, it doesn’t really matter. If the speakers are uninspiring, people will still go to the church because they would feel guilty if they didn’t go. People won’t easily switch churches (or religions) because that’s the church they’ve been going to since they can remember.

Because of a kind of natural selection, the church is very good at keeping members and getting “donations.” If the church was bad at getting donations, they would not have survived for so long. If there are branches which are unsuccessful, then they would have died out and been replaced by the more powerful churches. And this has obviously happened.

For more information about religion’s rights, read this:
http://www.venganza.org/
it explains everything a bit more clearly.