Give Religion No Money...
CHURCH HAS NO RIGHT TO TAKE OUR MONEY
People see violence and scheming over money to be understandable. They
think violence and scheming over religion is mad. Thus they show that they do
not regard religion as worth taking seriously or as seriously as money.
Even the Church seems to think violence over money is understandable.
Money is not far from the minds of some religions!
God in Deuteronomy 15:6 promises Israel it will be able to lend money to other
nations. Believers say that the Bible only condemns trying to take advantage of
the poor by charging them inappropriate interest. It does not condemn the
taking of interest as such.
The Church has made it a commandment for Catholics to
contribute to the support of the Church and for its role in spiritually helping
you and providing salvation for you. The commandment says, "Contribute to the
support of your pastors." There is more concern for giving money to bishops and
priests than there is for charity. People too often forget the Church as a
Church is not a charity.
Your money helps to ensure the Church gets the world and the state's attention.
By paying money to the Church you give it the means and power to fight human
rights. You finance its voice and its publications and its spokesmen. The Church
uses the power you give it to halt rights that conflict with its doctrine such
as contraception. It uses it to create a climate of persecution and
discrimination when it can. You are helping the dedicated Catholics to light the
fire and to damn innocent and impressionable people in that fire.
Catholics might disagree with the Catholic faith and consider it a supporter and
enabler of grave evil. Yet they may give money to their parish. The reason is
usually dissonance. They feel detached from the evil of the Church when they get
involved in their nice little parish. This is because the parish may engage in
social betterment and not explicitly endorse the evil parts of the faith. But
that is cherry-picking and it is dishonest. The parish does not explicitly
endorse the evil doctrines such as contraception being wrong even to save a
life. But by affiliating with Roman Catholicism and the Vatican it endorses them
silently as it were - by implication. Its silence and laxity is down to timidity
and hypocrisy. It is not down to opposition to the evil endorsed by the Church
and Vatican and Pope. It is still endorsing Catholic evil in principle. It is
timidity and hypocrisy that stops it brazenly and clearly endorsing the evil
principles. Nobody should tell themselves that by giving money and getting
involved in the parish that they are not part of the problem - they are not part
of the evil of Catholicism. They have no excuse for there are forms of
Christianity that are saner and more humane.
It is not a person's bad actions that are the problem but the beliefs enabling
the actions. If the beliefs had being right and wholesome the actions would not
have happened. Do not enable the Church - many of its beliefs are bad and
dangerous.
There is a bigger incentive for Catholics to give money to the Church than there
is in other forms of religion for the priests and bishops provide the rituals,
the sacraments, that bring people to God and forgive their sins and prepare them
for everlasting life in Heaven.
The Church is not entitled to collect money from the people without providing
incontestable proof that its sacraments really do make people better people and
that this cannot be explained naturally. No effort it made to collect that proof
or evidence. Most people who receive the sacraments end up as apostates in one
form or another. Religion is unable to verify its claims about the sacraments
reducing human evil supernaturally.
Religion must not be allowed to take advantage of our children. It is theft to
take money off people conditioned to believe they owe it to you for you are
doing the work of God.
It is theft to hold the pan out for money without being able to prove that your
product is value for money. This is accepted for you don’t have the right to
sell aspirin without your product being checked to make sure it has aspirin and
a sufficient amount in it.
Religion is not entitled to any favours any more than a man selling invisible
miracle paint that brings good luck and has people buying empty tins that
allegedly contain this paint is entitled to do what he is doing.
If God comes first then his Church should come before any family or organisation
on earth. Therefore when you are willing your money and you don’t give it to the
Church it’s a sin. The Church dares not teach this for fear of the secular
backlash.
Catholics who have a high level of knowledge of the faith know fine well that it
is false. The apparent holiness and sacrifices of the people and their sincerity
and cheerfulness can NEVER be an argument that their faith is the truth and from
God – it is irrelevant. I think people thinking it is an argument might be why
they give money to help fund religion.
The Church will not return the money it has taken from the people for defrauding
them. What if the Church does not intend to fraud today, even though it was set
up in the past by fraudsters? The Church is still duty bound to return the
money. The money is asked for and taken on the basis that the Church is the true
faith.
Priests all over the world ask for a Christmas Gift of cash from members of
their congregations. Bishops and leading diocesan priests have taken this money
while being guilty of fraud or child-sex abuse. They do not use it to help make
amends. They have covered up the crimes of other clergy. They have even been
known to burn the paperwork that points the finger at paedophile priests. They
should admit their crimes to the people in detail and then look for money or
take money.
Prayer is said to be important for it builds a relationship with God. The
essence of prayer is God, thy will be done. In other words, "God, I consent to
your will so do what you will and let what you will not me be done." Or simply
,"I surrender to you God." Anything else is magic - even if it is made to look
like prayer. Magic denies that God is perfect in power and wisdom. To say God
can be influenced is to deny that God is perfect. Influence implies helping
another being to agree with you. When prayer is submission and trust in the
divine will, the Catholic Church should not be taking donations for Masses and
to say prayers for people. Nobody can pray for anybody else. They can only seem
to.
The Bible warns that prayer without trust is offensive to God in the epistle of
James. The Catholic style of prayer prevents the joy of genuine trust in God
that is promised in the Bible. And the Church makes sure the mistrust is
deliberate for it does teach that prayer should ultimately say one thing, "Thy
Will is Perfect O God and let it be done." Mary said a similar prayer, "I am the
Lord's handmaiden and let it be done to me as he wills." Their devotion to her
based on making prayers to her on account of her alleged influence with God
would be like a poisoned apple.
The doctrine of justification means that you can be a terrible sinner but if you
repent you get justified by Jesus. You really become justified or declared in
the right or innocent by God. It says that justification changes you into a good
person but that your goodness is not the reason you get into Heaven to enjoy
eternal life with God. The Roman Church opposes this doctrine of justification
by faith alone.
The Roman Church says you are justified before God by obeying the commandments
such as the one to honour your father and mother and to pay your dues to the
Church. That is indirectly paying for your salvation!
Only religion will ask you to spend thousands on a building that is only
occupied one hour a week while the hospitals get rid of beds over lack of funds.
The pope finds only a few clerics fit to be bishops. Most priests are lax about
doctrine. They have betrayed their calling. Even by Catholic standards, they
should be paid nothing. They are paid to promote the faith and they prefer to
promote their own Protestant version.
Manipulating a person is inconsistent with loving them.
The Church manipulates people in several ways.
It lays down dogmatically what is best for people and adheres to all that
despite contrary evidence. It does not listen to the people. The Church lies
that it loves science. It does not. It ignores anything science discovers that
does not fit its doctrine. The Church has not responded to the scientific fact
that Adam and Eve are myths.
Nobody really knows what is best for another person. Each and every one has to
decide and work on that for themselves. Therapists for example do not help
others. They give others the tools to help themselves.
Christianity is not a humanitarian religion. It teaches that all our activities
must be done primarily and only for God. Their good works should not attract us
for they do not intend them for us. They teach that the good we do and the love
we give are all about Jesus.
"Jesus Christ --- commands us to love one another that is, all persons without
exception - for his sake." See the Catechism of Christian Doctrine.
We must not let the good results of their good deeds blind us to what they
really are as persons: manipulators.
The Church hides a lot of foolish doctrines to get money and allegiance from the
people. Catholicism is like Mormonism is that respect. If you get a plenary
indulgence for a soul in Purgatory, he will get into Heaven right away though he
is supposedly in Purgatory to weed out his attachment to sin. If God is going to
ignore his need for purification then it is mere cruelty to have him in
Purgatory in the first place. And the Church says getting masses said for the
dead helps. So you pay the priest money for masses to get friends out of
unnecessary suffering in Purgatory. That is a scam all right!
The Church hides doctrines people won't like. Nobody is told that their beloved
wife is now in Heaven and the family relationship does not exist there. She is
now the same to you as some stranger in a rainforest in South America.
As it is a man-made religion the Church has no right to
your money for that money is not asked for on the basis that it does x or y or z
but on the basis that it really is God's Church and God agrees with it and wants
you to pay for its upkeep and promotion. A man-made religion should be
deserted for there is no right to promote one's human ideas as if they were
divine. One thing is for sure, if you won't leave the Church officially
then at least do not give it money for that money will be used to gain
undeserved influence and to spread religious misinformation. The Church does not
claim to be a charity but a mission and the charity work only serves the
evangelism. Also, there are estimates that a large pile of money donated to the
Church does not really go where you think it is going.
http://www.churchsecurity.info...
Take the money you have ready for the collection plate and take it to the
nearest children's hospital.