On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 11:29:12 -0700, graham > wrote:

>On 2018-01-30 10:29 AM, Caída de la casa wrote:
>> On 1/30/2018 10:07 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> On 1/30/2018 11:56 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> It is indeed a major difference between Catholics and Protestants
>>>> now. A few hundred years ago when the Protestant Reformation came
>>>> along there were a lot of issues that Luther and his followers had
>>>> problems with. Mass and Bibles were in Latin, so people didn't
>>>> realize that a lot of stuff that they were being told was fabricated
>>>> by the church and had nothing to do with the Bible. They objected to
>>>> the concept of Purgatory and rich people being able to buy their way
>>>> to heaven by paying indulgences.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The Catholic Church was consistent in some of their teachings though.
>>> Use your church envelope with your donation.* Every week there was a
>>> money message of some sort.
>>
>>
>> So yo figure the Church should be a freebie with no donations?
>The churches are, in effect, big businesses and should be taxed.

Years ago, when people still wrote Letters to the Editor, I wrote to
our local paper saying churches should be taxed on their funding and
also property taxes like the rest of us. In the end we changed our
phone number, the calls, mostly from RC church goers were terrible.
They didn't want to argue, but to yell, shout and condemn out of hand.