BREAKING: IRS announces exemption to 1954 ban on 501(c)3 orgs engaging in political activity—now allows churches & houses of worship to endorse political candidates.
The wall separating religion & state is collapsed. It is not hyperbole to state that we are on the footsteps of full blown Christian theocracy. Nothing good can come of this.
SuperPACs building megachurches in 3... 2... 1..
Black churches getting bombed once they get all 'uppity' thinking this IRS rule includes them.
#LawlessSCOTUS
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@QasimRashid Because of course they did.
I wonder how long before churches start burning?
@QasimRashid Like they weren't doing that before. Then-Archbishop Raymond Burke was denying people sacraments for voting for John Kerry. Religion hasn't been shy about being a political machine in ages.
I say this as a devout Catholic: the Church has not been fulfilling the promise of providing the services it claims tax-exempt status for since ever. Tax them all. They want to play ball, they pay to play like everyone else. I've believed that since high school.
"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries."
--James Madison, 1803
@VisualStuart @QasimRashid The current crop of idiots doesn't even remember when wacko Christian churches (Aryan Nations, various Fundy LDS sects) were killing each other and randos caught in their crossfire.
Just imagine the bloodshed modern megachurches can fund.
The tragedy of humanity isn't our unstoppable urges for evil and violence, but that people are mostly too lazy to remember our past fuckups.
True. Plan A. We must try. A plan B would be good too, considering the Supreme Court injustices are spearheading christofascism.
Agreed. Try everything. Do everything we can. Never give up. Never quit. Never say die. Never bend. Never break.
If and when we must, we can find and give sanctuary.
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Yes. Valid thinking. Something to reckon with. A personal decision.
BRB, self-incorporating as a church.
@SubductionRheology Eh. Sounds like they kinda are, but also don’t have to explicitly be.
Watch for "suddenly rich" churches functioning as straw donors for hostile foreign governments.
Russian Orthodox
https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/12/11/the-unholy-alliance-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-and-the-kremlin
https://cepa.org/article/the-russian-church-spreading-putins-poison/
https://www.vox.com/politics/416042/religion-politics-trump-christian-nationalism-liberty-maga
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/07/russia-putin-reaction-us-election/
Moonies
https://time.com/6961050/unification-church-ffwp-moonies-us-election/
Christian zionists
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/04/tim-dunn-joe-straus-christian-texas/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jul/11/tim-dunn-texas-oil-billionaire-trump
https://forward.com/opinion/670246/trump-israel-jewish-vote-orthodox/
Russian Orthodox and, to a lesser extent, Orthodox Church in America, which used to be ROCOR (Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia) already have been active in far right action.
Meh... you're telling me MAGA don't go to church on Sundays and posture as Christian?
Any American who goes to church and believes it is already brainwashed.
This actually is just making official what has been quietly done for decades by both parties.
In 2008, when CA Prop 8 (anti-gay marriage) was passed, three major denominations backed passage publicly from the pulpit. Proof was posted on YouTube prior to the vote. News stories were run about people being banned from congregations over questioning their clergy..
The IRS didn't even blink. Nobody was investigated. The rule was never enforced even then.
@QasimRashid footsteps?
Nah, you're balls deep.
GOP admin IRS ruling not recognizing religion per se , but embracing and promoting right-wing theocracy groups.
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