Max Wallace sounds like atheist Marxist.

@Diedrich not sure what your point is can you comment on the issue rather than the messager?

I think this is appropriate:

“I have come to think of the export of ‘democracy’ as the contemporary equivalent of what missionaries have always done in the interest of conquering and occupying the ‘uncivilized’ world on behalf of the powers that be. I have said that the ‘church’ invented the concept of conversion by any means, including torture and killing of course, as doing the victims a big favor, since it was in the interest of ‘saving’ their immortal souls. It is now called, ‘democratization’ - Rita Corriel"

The tax exempt status of church and other so-called not-for-profits in this day and age is ridiculous, they are businesses in all but name, tax 'em and our national debt plummets.

Runner - you talk of morality when you have none yourself, you like your church are the ultimate hypocrites
Geoff

To some extent I agree. The same logic should be applied to greenie organisations.

No one every says what taxes the church should be paying! Land tax? Income tax, (on clergy paid at $12 an hour for a 48 hour week?) Clergy actually pay income tax on their stipend. On what else are they to pay tax? The land they hold, land given for a specific purpose which cannot be sold and must be returned to the state and therefor has no economic value? Offerings on a Sunday morning to support their parish and pay for maintenance of historic buildings, power, and water bills with hopefully enough over to pay the rector. The largest myth in the universe is that the church in Australia is rich!

'Runner - you talk of morality when you have none yourself, you like your church are the ultimate hypocrites
Geoff'

And you Geoff with no moral basis to draw from display much more hatred than reason.