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2025-07-10 Olde Tyme Religion

Trump Praises IRS Decision Allowing Churches to Make Political Endorsements

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-10 01:03|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [144 views ] Top

#1 Ah'm kinda thinkin' that makes domestic mosques legal targets.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-10 01:04|| 2025-07-10 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not as keen on this as others might be. It opens the door for churches/synagogues/drum circles/whatever to push political narratives MUCH more strongly than they already do. I foresee sermons, 'actions', and possible use of their members' funds by some to further whatever their leadership 'elites' want to promote.

Whereas most religious groups are quasi-neutral now, and members from all political beliefs are generally accepted and not marginalized, the removal of the 'non-political' messaging or actions could prompt extreme alienation within the congregations and severe loss of membership. This loss is already happening to a lot of mainline churches that have currently restrained political leanings, although some seem to not care and have gone full-blown radical already (and suffering huge membership losses as a result, for why they don't recognize and just blame 'society').

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-07-10 07:15|| 2025-07-10 07:15|| Front Page Top

#3 FDR mobilized pastors nationwide. That’s how we got social security.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-07-10 07:25|| 2025-07-10 07:25|| Front Page Top

#4 It's just that the IRS hasn't been too concerned about those that have leaned to the Left before now.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-07-10 09:15|| 2025-07-10 09:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Re #2: More about radicalism:

From Modernism as the Synthesis of All Heresies:

... If we look earlier in the encyclical [titled 'Pascendi Dominici Gregis'], we find some statements which give us an insight into why the amalgam known as Modernism goes by this particular papal pejorative. In the third paragraph, the Holy Father says that the Modernists “lay the ax not to the branches and shoots, but to the very root, that is, to the faith and its deepest fibers.” There is, then, something fundamental to the heresy ... of Modernism being radical – in the literal sense of going to the radix (root) – in its denial of the faith. This is so because “[the Modernists’] whole system has been born of the alliance between faith and false philosophy,” a philosophy that fundamentally denies knowledge, the supernatural order, the stability of truth, the principle of non-contradiction, and the metaphysics of common sense. It lobotomizes the soul, as it were, between “knowing” on the one hand and “believing” on the other. The manifold results of this evil union between faith and an unworthy handmaid are the fruits of a tree which is corrupt at its very roots.

Posted by Melancholic 2025-07-10 18:21|| 2025-07-10 18:21|| Front Page Top

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