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   From: evelyn.ruut@gmail.com   
      
   "niunian"  wrote in message   
   news:i0id66t0sknp7kn6phkenn3jnmi7sgi70p@4ax.com...   
   > On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:11:57 -0700 (PDT), Jigme Dorje   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Aug 14, 12:05?pm, Tang Huyen    
   >>wrote:   
   >>> Lee Rudolph wrote:   
   >>> > tri cycle:   
   >>>   
   >>> > >Jigme Dorje:   
   >>>   
   >>> > >> Churches are good for something.   
   >>> > >> Someday we may figure out what.   
   >>>   
   >>> > >here they do charity work the government doesn't.   
   >>>   
   >>> > Which is (effectively) paid for by those taxpayers   
   >>> > who have to make up, with the taxes they pay, for   
   >>> > the tax exemptions enjoyed by "churches" and   
   >>> > "charities" (when recognized by the government,   
   >>> > when of course only in those cases--which are,   
   >>> > however, by far the most numerous--in which the   
   >>> > tax exemption is claimed).   
   >>>   
   >>> > In effect, "charitable exemptions" (and, much   
   >>> > worse, tax exemptions for not-even-colorably   
   >>> > "charitable" religious instutions) are--like   
   >>> > "foundations" with other ostensible purposes   
   >>> > (like "education") are a way of letting   
   >>> > persons and institutions who are not even   
   >>> > *formally* instructed by the general populace   
   >>> > choose how taxes paid by the general populace   
   >>> > shall be spent. ?Fuck it.   
   >>>   
   >>> In a certain religion, it is said that divine wisdom is   
   >>> folly to the world. So from the point of view of   
   >>> divine wisdom, f*ck the world's judgement.   
   >>>   
   >>> Tang Huyen   
   >>   
   >>The world's judgement is really not the issue. Your own is what   
   >>matters. Can you say f*ck my own judgement?   
   >   
   > What a stupid question. Why do you want to do that?   
      
      
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   Evelyn   
      
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