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- From: rlk@underprize.think.com (Robert Krawitz)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.religion.misc,alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: An Abortion Argument that has nothing to do with OT and NT
- Date: 28 Dec 92 14:10:31
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- In-reply-to: iikkap@mits.mdata.fi's message of 28 Dec 92 18:17:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.181720.27176@prime.mdata.fi> iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen) writes:
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- From the post I got the impression that 'donations' to the church are
- completely voluntary in the US. Is this true? Here in Finland, when you join
- the church (as most people do when they are born), you have a set tax you
- have to pay to the church of 2% of income. This comes into play only after
- you are 18, of course.
-
- In the US, there is no government-recognized affiliation with religion
- (i. e. the government does not recognize an individual as a member of a
- religion). While donations to religious organizations (as with other
- tax-exempt organizations that are not political in nature) are
- tax-exempt, there is no mandatory donation to a religious body.
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