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Originally Posted by Soni2
"Curch tax" only applies to church members. If you are not a church member, you do not pay church tax. So, church taxes are more like a member fee than a real tax.
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Nevertheless a tax that gets collected -
by the state.
Also, due to some law from early 19th cenmtury, the state pays yearly copensations to the church for lands that were exproriated at that time. That the church mostly collected these lands in dubious ways itself back then, gets ignored. And so, since over 200 years, even non-members have to pay via the public tax scheme for the church - member or not.
Its like in the medieval. Just a few days the yearly payment was due, and in some newspapers they reprted it. Church critics showed the calculation that revealed the state since 1949 payed a two digit billion sum of money . Also, the church gets immense tax reliefs and priviliged fiscal legislation. When they build a new hopsital, and ther church adds lets say 10% of "its" money to the costs, it often ends with the whole hospital after construction given into amdinsitraiton and possession of the church. Tax payers - church members and non-members alike - pay 90% of the costs, but the church owns it, and the land it got build on: its property then. When a church-run hposital or sociual service needs finial "m,ainteance" - who you think gotta pay? Right, the tax payer, no matter whether he is church member or not.
The profits from these fraudulent schemes - thats what they are - are calculated by church critics to count by the hundreds of billions.
Now you know why the German dioceses are the by far wealthiest in the world.
Church and Christ, that is like Mafia and Albert Schweitzer. It does not match. Its the reason why Paul may have been beneficial for the church he founded - but is a traitor to what Jesus has taught. In the end, Paul served his own earthly ego - and betrayed Jesus. Damned he should be - judging by what has come of it in the past 2 millenia.