ThefuzzyFurryComradeColorado Pastor: Sign These Anti-Trans Ballot Petitions or “You’re a Traitor” to Jesus
FoolishSageI’m not overly familiar with US laws or anything, but isn’t a church that messes with politics at risk of losing their tax exemption?
MirsheNot really, in practice. Thanks to Scientology, the IRS is extremely gun shy at doing anything to churches that violate their tax exempt status, or anything vaguely church-shaped for that matter.
How does one start a religion?
Like. Do you get followers and then write the holy book, or does the holy book come first or what?
FuglyDuckWell, for your purposes you need to grift some stupid rich people and get rich.
(In point of fact, this is what Hubbard did with Scientology. They targeted rich and influential people like tom cruise to extract their wealth and that wealth became the reason the IRS had trouble- they could afford a large army of lawyers.)