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?
Most of Christian history has been just using cherry-picked verses to create whole denominations. The Gospel of John is a good spot to start.
Joseph Smith took an alternate route - claims of visions to get followers then wrote the holy books.
it’s wild out here in bumfuckastan america. there’'ll be a town of <1000 people but they have like 200 different churches, one for each cluster of families…and only 1 or 2 people in each church could even tell you what denomination they are.
like…godamn…kind of understand why the catholic church used to just execute people for starting schisms.
QuasitI can't help but wonder how those churches survive!
same as everywhere else, they’ve havens for tax evasion and ratfuckery.