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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!apple!mikel
- From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.religion.misc,alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: An Abortion Argument that has nothing to do with OT and NT
- Message-ID: <75974@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 20:21:59 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.225529.16212@netcom.com> <adams.725553012@spssig> <1992Dec28.181720.27176@prime.mdata.fi>
- Followup-To: talk.abortion
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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- In article <1992Dec28.181720.27176@prime.mdata.fi> iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen) writes:
- >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.
-
- There is no state-sponsored church in the U.S., and no one is
- (legally) a member of any church at birth. Donations to any of
- the countless different churches and other religious organizations
- are entirely voluntary (modulo any hypothetical effect of
- brainwashing).
-