Churches (and charities) with 501(c)(3)
Posted By: are not to engage in political activity. on 2008-11-17
In Reply to: From whom? Any details available? - Or are we simply expected to....sm
Or they risk losing their tax exempt status. There are plenty of churches in my area that hand out voter guides, often with misleading information or outright lies in them. But people believe them because they got the guides at church. There are even pastors and preachers that tell their congregations who to vote for and that if they don't vote the "right" way, there will be eternal repercussions.
If the churches don't like the law, they should lobby to change it. Until that time, they should obey it.
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Read your own article. The charities are not illegal.
Then try Googling the full street addresses and go to the street view feature of the addresses that DO exist. Lot of trees in front of the properties, but cars parked along a residential street. Big scandal. Maybe whoever posted the original rumor should learn how to use the Cook County Appraisal District website properly. Just because they are not able to get a hit does not mean the address does not exist.
these are huge churches
As you may remember, I am a Jew, but these Christian Churches listed are pretty large denominations:
UMC - 12 million worldwide members, 8 million in the U.S.
PC-USA - 2.2 million
Episcopalian - 2.2 million
American Baptist - 1.4 million
UCC - 1.2
The above are just some of the member churches. Are all of these denominations full of false prophets or reading a different bible?
I'm not trying to be difficult, I just find it very interesting
churches & political endorsements
In Mark 8:15, Jesus strictly warned us to "Beware of the leaven of Herod." Why did he say this?? It is because in his day there was a group of Jews called Herodians. They mixed religion & politics, & tried to curry favor with Rome by doing the bidding of Herod, who was dependent on their leavening influence in order to maintain taxation & control over Israel. Any church that is political has partaken of "the leaven of Herod." The only churches that are free of this leaven are the Amish-Mennonites & the Jehovah's Witnesses, who abstain from voting & are conscientous objectors to war. They also refrain from displaying national flags on their platforms, seeing that Christ's kingdom is "not of this world." (John 18:36)
When Israel decided that they needed to choose a king over them (1 Sam. 8), God said that they were rejecting Him & trusting in the arm of flesh. Likewise, voting is a carnal weapon of warfare (2 Cor. 10:4), & is leaning on the arm of flesh (Jer. 17:5). A vote for president is a vote for commander in chief of the armed forces, & Christians are not to have no part in avenging evil for evil. (Contrast the duties of the church in Romans 12, with the duties of the state in Romans 13.)
Why not leave marriage up to the churches
There are some churches performing marriages now and have been for years. Go to the court house and get your "union license" and then get married whereever the heck you can. My Presbyterian church has been performing weddings for gays for almost 20 years.
Oh cmon - get real. ALL churches preach
solely behind the pulpit, either. I'm sure just as much hatred is spewed at those QUILTING BEES, or during Athletes for Christ football practice.
Give me equal rights, gay marriage and pride, and freedom to believe as I choose ANY day, over all tht archaic religious fear-mongering.
Christian churches take people on their word (sm)
if they knew he was Muslim before but he was professing that he wanted to change to Christian, they would never tell him no. We don't exclude anyone who wants to become a Christian. There is no background check or paperwork to fill out, you simply tell the people that is what you want to do and that's it.
You call that an excuse? There are plenty of churches that offer those things!! nm
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