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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.religion.misc,alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: An Abortion Argument that has nothing to do with OT and NT
- Message-ID: <TORKEL.92Dec28215350@lludd.sics.se>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 20:53:50 GMT
- References: <nyikos.725160159@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Dec24.225529.16212@netcom.com>
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- In-Reply-To: iikkap@mits.mdata.fi's message of Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:17:20 GMT
-
- 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.
-
- But surely in Finland as in other Nordic countries you are free to leave
- the Church at any time and thus escape the tax?
-