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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!prime!mits!iikkap
- From: iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen)
- Subject: Re: An Abortion Argument that has nothing to do with OT and NT
- Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:11:58 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.231158.1327@prime.mdata.fi>
- References: <adams.725553012@spssig> <1992Dec28.181720.27176@prime.mdata.fi> <75974@apple.apple.COM>
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- In article <75974@apple.apple.COM> mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins) writes:
- >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).
-
- Oh yeah, I forgot to say that those taxes are in *addition* to the voluntary
- donations you have. Actually, I find it quite an income to the church, as most
- people go to chuch only on Christmas.
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