Grift recognize grift.
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2025
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So, giving "Churches" free and unrestricted motive to pay no taxes, like the old law was enforced.
Being a Prosperity Evangelist is the single best, and greatest grift in the US.
MAGA wants churches to be centers of indoctrination.
Satanic Temple is gonna love this one.
Satanic Temple doesn't wield nearly as much influence under the current administration.
TST was able to gain the notoriety it had because the court systems were still a comparatively level playing field that respected the Constitution and the rule of law. The Trump administration doesn't believe in that stuff. If this administration decides that the rules don't apply to TST any more because fuck you that's why, then the rules don't apply to TST any more because fuck you that's why. The courts are all but on board with it.
If anything, I'd be more afraid that a lawsuit started by TST would be used as justification to declare that the only "real" religions that matter are the "established" religions like Christianity and Judaism than they are to actually rule in TST's favor, mostly on the basis of because fuck you that's why.
Hence the liquidation of the DOE. Gotta keep'em dumb and obedient.
I know it's confusing, but seriously, the DOE is the Department of Energy, please stop calling the Department of Education that.
many already are--it's not enforced and prosecuted now because it's political and career suicide to 'go after churches' (who violate these rules).
This is just a way for MAGA Nazis to extort money out of churches.
"That's a nice tax-exempt status ya got there. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it."
I guess I'm a church
Amen.
The best part about this? If you are a 501©(3), support the wrong candidate and/or aren't the correct type of christian church, bam, there goes your 501©(3) status!
To take all the power away from all churches/religion, just get everyone to stop donating. Just have to figure out how to accomplish that.
Trump may have figured that out… tariffs. People won’t donate if they’re subsistence living.
Lmao if you think churches don't already have political power and spend political money, you are crazy
Source: I am an exmormon who actively participated in Prop 8 activism in CA many years ago
So two things. Firstly glad ya got out of that, secondly fuck you.
Joking aside how deep into the participation were ya? Cause I'm just curious how much of a shit show it was, I know they started bussing pissants from out of state in after awhile but I ain't got much of a clue what it looked like internally. Just kinda curious.
So just start a church I guess.