“My conclusion is that there should be no tax exemption for any religion whatsoever. It is all getting far too crazy. Falwell’s wife does oral sex…”

Wait…..does that mean I have to pay taxes if my wife does oral sex……?

*I* am coming to love The Flying Spaghetti Monster theory of the Universe. At least the adherents have FUN with it and share an inexpensive meal.

Do they REALLY believe that Yacub shit? It’s not even reasonable as a metaphor. All it does is justify why they’re downtrodden. Seriously depressing material.

LmR offered:
“I was more spiritual before joining this cult and now after I left.”

I’d generally agree with that. At a minimum, I’m not not-seeing the crimes that the scientology leadership is committing, and passing them off as “for the greatest good”. For a while there, I even justified the months of extended punishment they subjected me to, culminating in the RPF(Re-education Project Force). THEN they beached me as unsuitable for any job they had at Flag. (Idiots!)

Karen, you’re right except their god is money, more Money, EVEN MORE MONEY

That racist Yakub balderdash should earn the Nation of so-called islam permanent harassment by the JDL and similar groups fighting anti-semitism and other bigotry. I expect devout Muslems will disown that blatantly unhinged cult if they ever get their act together enough to wield some power. I just thought…. Is there a group of ex-NOI members spreading the truth about their former Group, similar to the societies we know so well who are digging out scientology’s crimes?

Even better: let the religionists get a REAL job!

ETA: The same could be said of the bureaucrats and other politicians who don’t know what work or customer service are.

Religions have their crazy creation stories, each one wilder than the next. The Greeks and Romans, the Phoenicians, the Norse, they all had their far-out explanations for how life came about. There’s far out magic in the New Testament and the Old Testament has wild stuff in it too. None of this bothers me. What bothers me is when religion foments hate and blame amongst people instead of forging communication bonds and furthering peace and harmony and understanding. So you believe that Jesus walked on water or that Aphrodite sprang up out of sea foam or that Moses parted the Red Sea…OK. Have fun. Believe in your talking snakes and whales that swallow a man whole and then spit him out perfectly intact 3 days later, or that Xenu did his Volcano number, or or or whatever. People can and do believe in, and derive comfort from all manner of woo. That’s ok. But when a religion’s scripture allows or mandates that some other group has caused all the world’s ills and problems and accordingly must be exterminated that to me is the indicator that that religion is nuts and the people following it are nuts.

I’m with you, George. Every religious organization should pay taxes.