Sentences with phrase «paying for religious people»

The sguff about «OMG we are all paying for religious people to support their own flock» is wrong.

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Before 1984, people who worked for nonprofit, religious, charitable or educational organizations did not pay into Social Security unless they specifically chose to take part in the program.

Tell me, if the school charged the actual market value for the use of this space and the use of equipment, etc. and if that market value actually reflected the cost to the public, then the issue might become clearer to you because these religious people would scream at having to pay full price and the cost of any damages they may inflict upon the public property they are using illegally.

With that mix up, religious people judged and condemned the world for immorality that the Lord Jesus Christ paid for with His «Precious Blood!»

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.

Eventually, the White House changed course and extended the religious exemption to other religious organizations and will force insurers to provide and pay for contraceptives to people who work for religious organizations who oppose contraceptives.

@@@@@ WIMPY WASP explained it when earthquakes and floods and famine hit really hard then most crazy broke really religious people who don't have a job go crazy like you.you religious people don't give back in my last three years I given back too helping the poor more then $ 20,000 dallors of my own money how much you so called chicken heads crazy religious people given out of your own income wait you crazy religious people got ta pay your light bill.by the way I own my own commercial health base buisness in Arizona.you still working for a pay check I write employees paychecks.

They are made to act — and should want to act — as agents of the public fisc who can not rightfully use the tax funds paid under duress of law by all the people — of many faiths and no faith — for the imposition of the religious beliefs or for the institutional advantage or aggrandizement of the sponsoring church.

You must not be paying attention to not only how people will be voting, but / and even more importantly the people (especially the hyper - religious) that are running for and getting voted into office are with zealotry... attempting, and in some cases passing laws that are based on their «religious beliefs.»

The fact that it is not offensive indicates that you are a fair mined person, but this may be beside the point as well, because any religious symbols paid for by the state on public property is the issue.

If you think people don't tear into religious organizations for supporting and encouraging hatred and discrimination, you haven't been paying attention.

If you need other people to validate your religious beliefs, then that is on you... I make no apologies for being comfortable enough in my own skin to not feel as if I need to pay a religion to validate my belief system.

I would never give money to a religious organization that doesn't pay taxes — that is like giving money to my kids — and they need it more than the church... I think faith is a wonderful thing for a lot of people — including myself (I have faith in myself)-- I just wish others would keep their «faith» personal, and out of politics and government.

it's always the same deal with religious folk: show some marketable humble or charitable stuff to pull the sheep in and rake in some dollars to pay for the lavish robes, and provide something to use as a red herring to keep people from focusing in on the nasty bits and priest crimes.

The plaque had been placed in the cathedral in 2008, during the civic celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the founding of New France, and it read like this (my translation): «The Society for the 400th Anniversary of Québec, through its president, Mr. Jean Leclerc, pays homage to bishops, priests, and religious communities of men and women for their exceptional contributions to the history and the culture of the people of Québec.»

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

Do you also want to allow a vegan - owned or religious group opposed to animal testing to force people to pay for any cancer treatment tested on animals?

A study of the direct - mail follow up procedures used by the paid - time broadcasters in 1981 for persons who seek information on religious conversion indicates that church attendance is rarely mentioned or encouraged.

However, for people who are dissatisfied with their local church, who have little established connection with a local church, or whose religious consciousness may be awakened by a viewed religious program, the research indicates that paid - time religious programs, by presenting themselves as competent alternatives to the local church, offering a range of services similar to the local church, and not referring respondents or enquirers to a local church, may be acting as a barrier to people's developing their faith most fully within this interpersonal context.

Though criticisms occasionally have been made suggesting that the paid - time religious broadcasters are concerned primarily with raising money, there can, perhaps, belittle doubt that the essential reason why religious broadcasters are in the business is for the purpose of changing people's attitudes toward religious faith.

These historians paid particular attention to the Maryland Act of Religious Toleration of 1649, which provided that no Christian in the province would «bee any wais troubled, molested, or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof,» nor could any person be in «any way compelled to the beleife or exercise of any Religion against his or her consent.»

In addition, the challengers say using tax dollars to pay tuition at religious schools is barred by the Constitution's prohibition against compelling a person to «support any place of worship... against his consent,» and its ban on using state funds «for the benefit of any religious or theological institution.»

Before 1984, people who worked for nonprofit, religious, charitable or educational organizations did not pay into Social Security unless they specifically chose to take part in the program.

The Santa Monica Code says in 6.32.040 that «Every person engaged in soliciting, canvassing, taking orders or peddling of goods, wares, merchandise or services shall pay a license fee in accordance with Section 6.12.010 (a) of this Code» (that section however does not demand a fee for activities not generating money, i.e. political and religious disseminations).