usmjam/religion

From the page: "Roman Catholic church to receive Anglicans

Pope Benedict approves decree setting up new worldwide institution to receive Anglican communities"-----------------------------------------------------------You'd wonder if both sides need to compromise their beliefs in order to achieve this fake unity. But just remember, they both compromised away their Christianity long ago.

From the page: "Most churches in America have organized as "incorporated 501c3 tax-exempt religious organizations." This is a fairly recent trend that has only been going on for about fifty years. Churches were only added to section 501c3 of the tax code in 1954. We can thank Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson for that. Johnson was no ally of the church. As part of his political agenda, Johnson had it in mind to silence the church and eliminate the significant influence the church had always had on shaping "public policy."

Did the church ever need to seek permission from the government to be exempt from taxes? Were churches prior to 1954 taxable? No, churches have never been taxable. To be taxable one would first need to be under the jurisdiction and therefore under the taxing authority of the government. The First Amendment clearly places the church outside the jurisdiction of the civil government: "Congress shall make NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

Religion cannot be free if you have to pay the government, through taxation, to exercise it. Since churches aren't taxable in the first place, why do so many of them go to the IRS and seek permission to be tax-exempt? It's illogical.

Most churches also incorporate. At law a corporation is "a creature of the State," and "the State is sovereign over all corporations." Not only are there immense legal ramifications, there are also huge theological ramifications to any church incorporating. By definition an incorporated church is a State-Church. Is that what Christ came to earth to establish?

Not only is 501c3 status unnecessary for any church, when a church becomes a 501c3 they place themselves under the regulatory control of the IRS, and all the potential threat and intimidation that comes along with it. Why would any thinking pastor want that, when it's not at all necessary? It just doesn't make sense."

From the page: "(CNSNews.com) - President Obama has named to his faith-based advisory council a self-professed Christian who holds that the New Testament's teaching that homosexual behavior is unnatural and wrong--which is found in St. Paul's letter to the Romans--"is not true."

The appointee, Harry Knox, has also said that Obama's decision to invite the Rev. Rick Warren to say a prayer at the Inauguration "tainted" the ceremony and that Pope Benedict XVI is a "discredited leader."

Harry Knox, a professed gay Christian who is director of the religion and faith program at the Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual rights group, was named to President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships on Monday. The advisory council gives federal grants to faith-based organizations."

Obama is putting more people in positions of influence who are anti-Christian, anti-bible and anti-God. This is not unexpected news.

Keep in mind however that this faith-debased initiative scam was set up prior to Obama by the skull&bones satan worshiping Bush family. Bush Sr. had the first go with his thousand points of light and Bush Jr. then used his own fake christianity to fool church leaders to drink the faith initiative kool-aid.

Bush & Obama are but pawns of the globalists.

The more interesting thing here is that the attack by Obama's queer-boy against Rick Warren may have caused Warren to expose more of his own duplicity and fake-christianity. Notice in this link how world-leader wannabe Warren is now pro-sodomite and basically on Obama's pro-fag side. Heh, they have a way of exposing each other, dont they?

From the page: "Welcome to the Web Page on Divine Mediator Figures in the Biblical World at the Divinity School of the University of St Andrews

The Divine Mediator Figures online course is currently on hiatus, but you can visit PaleoJudaica.com, my weblog ("blog") on ancient Judaism and its context - updated frequently with the latest on ancient Judaism in the news and on the Internet and full of interesting links!"