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In Reply to: In my day ..... posted by susie on November 24, 2003 at 15:46:47:
We're not going to enforce a tax on you like the governments of this world in order to help pay for the benefits of your own Government. Neither are we going to demand a ten percent tithe, as in the Old Testament and many churches of today.”
“If I were a religious racketeer, I could have become a rich man ... But we have done the unheard of, the ridiculous: We don't want your money, unless you want to give us a little to help us ...
“We don't say, like many denominations, you Colonies give us 10% of everything you have, 10% of everything you have must come to headquarters. Many churches levy a tax on their people, laying burdens on the poor that they aren't able to bear, which their leaders aren't willing to lift with one of their fingers!—Jesus said so! We could have been another religious racket like them, and I could have wound up with all the money and you kids still be poor!
