I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.
Church Quotes
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Without knowing it, I became a logical positivist at about the age of ten. Every Sunday, I was supposed to make the two-mile walk to the local Church of England à it was a long time before I discovered there was any other variety à to attend a service for the village youth. To encourage […]
Christ lives on in the Church, but Christ crucified. One might almost venture to say that the defects of the Church are His Cross.
A life ago, I was depressed, broke, homeless, unemployed and divorced… I went to the priest and asked him if it would be okay (to be confirmed into the Anglican church) considering I didn’t accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior, didn’t believe the Bible was divinely inspired and wasn’t entirely sure about the whole […]
We are supposed to be a pilgrim people unencumbered and on the move yet we are chained to plant and property; we proclaim the hollowness of riches yet still have great wealth. The Church preaches about servanthood and humility yet it is classically hierarchical; it offers wholeness to man yet ministers to only a fraction […]
The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movements of civilization that have taken place outside of the church and usually in the face of the strong opposition of the church. But the church has always resisted the process of […]
Then it’s merrily, merrily, merrily, whoa! To the old gray church they come and go, Some to be married and some to be buried And Old Robin has gone for the mail.
For as every man is a world in himself, so every man is a church in himself.
The churches beg – and if we don’t give them money, why, they take it anyway, forcibly, by means of this unjust state tax exemption.
