Why We Need to Tax God

Have you ever been to a church service and the pastor announces that a special guest visitor would like to address the congregation. It's not a guest minister, but a political candidate running for Congress, City Council, or stating some position about an upcoming election. Maybe the pastor himself tells the church how it's the last days, "we are a Godly people", we must vote our principles, or amazingly, advises the church to  not vote at all. Maybe the pastor tells you to vote for a particular political party for whatever reason, real or imagined.

Appalling? Disgusting? It happens all the time in the South and when that happens, the tax man should immediately send the church a tax return because churches are being poisoned by capitalism. Churches aren't taxed and participate in so called "faith based programs" and it's something we all accept like the sky is blue. But no one really examines why we don't tax churches, especially now since they are in the political game.

“THE constitution does not require the government to exempt churches from federal income taxation or from filing tax and information returns.” It's a privilege, not a right, which means it's revocable. When the founding documents of this country were written, for instance, churches tended to be small congregations of like-minded people who worshiped their deity in the same way, and any money given by a church’s flock was hopefully going to support church-sponsored functions like charity work.

TBN's Palatial Headquarters

Now, even Religion has been poisoned by crony Capitalism to the point that we have these mega-churches that rake in millions of dollars and commercialize their church’s message to the point that a Coca-Cola billboard and a Rock of Christ Our Lord Who Gave His Life For Us on A Cross on the Side of the Road at Mt. Calvary Tabernacle (seriously, church names are redundant) billboard. What I’m saying is that God has a butt load of cash and merchandise that he doesn’t pay Uncle Sam a dime for…and maybe that needs to change. You have a system rigged full of televangelists running lucrative things such as recording studios and selling oil and gas under cover of the religious exemption, highlighting a serious regulatory failure at the heart of America's charitable sector.

However, ever since the Religious Right started commandeering the Republican party, churches have become more and more active in politics, and still all along they’ve gotten millions of dollars tithed to them, without having to pay a single tax dollar. I seriously attended a church service where the pastor said, "I require all employees of this church to tithe. The money is automatically deducted from their checks, or they can't work here" So, let me get this straight, you pay the employee's and then require them to pay that money back to you? No one saw a problem with this but me. How is this not a religious sanctioned extortion racket?

Show Me Da Money

These super-mega-corporate churches rake in more money than your mom and pop convenience store, or your local movie theater. Make no mistake, churches have becomes titans of business, and yet every year they file no taxes. Yes, they are supposed to be non-profit, but one has to wonder just how much oversight we get into the books. As taxpayers, we should all be concerned that churches are more and more becoming fronts for large sums of money to be divvied up among pastors, preachers, church executives and whatever political causes they see fit. These tax shelters for God need to be more thoroughly scrutinized, but in a modern world, why shouldn’t churches be taxed once their revenues, excuse me, tithes reach a certain amount of money? These churches lobby against the tax payers interests time and time again and that's not what the church was designed to do. I have no better example than TBN (the blasphemy network), these charlatans spread their hokey brand of prosperity nonsense gospel to the mindless, they send in their checks and the owners of the networks sit on their tacky gold thrones (the old white guy that always wears a gray suit and the lady with the purple wig).

Is it really fair to the working class Americans in this country, that Pat Robertson can bring in astoundingly large sums of money every year for his 700 Club and that none of it will be taxed, beyond what the person tithing pays as income tax, of course. He’s going on TV every day, asking people to send them money to reserve their room at Hotel Heaven, and where exactly does that money go? For him to tell more lies and spread more intolerance and hatred on gays, women, and abortion.

Is This A Church or The Staples Center?

I’m sure the 700 Club funds all kinds of Christian-based charities (buying soggy sandwiches, rubber arm bands, and invasive female procedures), and they probably do fine work. But I’m not convinced for one second that none of it goes towards political campaigns or candidates. After all, the 700 Club has interests it wants to protect, like making sure two adults who love each other can’t get married if they both happen to have a dick, and you know, compassionate stuff like that. Does it not raise any red flags that a man who espouses the teachings of Christ, who said that it’s easier for a rich man to eat a hundred tacos in an hour than it is to get into Heaven (or something like that), is by all accounts worth at least 100 million dollars, and probably, much, much more? Shouldn't a man who is dedicated to the work of a man who gave no merit to money, and who runs a church that is supposed to be non-profit, is filthy rich? But it's a testament to a man's faith and how much faith he has by how much money he has acquired, in the new gospel.

It’s time for America to treat churches the same as any small business and hold them accountable as well as transparent. If the church in question really is non-profit then there’d be no need to tax them. However, if a church is running deep into the black, paying its ministers six or even seven figure salaries, he's drives a Bentley, boasts about a $500 dog, a private jet, multi million dollar homes, solid gold toilets, private chefs, claim a so called "parsonage allowance" to have the church pay their mortgage and is spending millions on advertising their drug God, then it’s time to tax them. Tax them at 15%, or 20%, but a church with millions in revenues left over after they’ve paid all their expenses for the year has every obligation to kick into the country’s infrastructure. Since they love America so much that they can opine about how we need to try and save it by voting for certain people or not voting for certain people. You know America has gone down hill since we took prayer out of school... After all, it’s this country’s extremely liberal and secular stance on religion that allows them to operate as massive profit centers anyway. Why do you think Scientology became classified a religion instead of the crackpot fake psychology money bilking scheme it really is. Tax exemption. But, no one thinks about that...

Haven't I Given Enough?

Conservatives should love this idea. After all, they contend no one deserves a free ride in America. So that applies to God, too, right? So pay up you dead beat!

Harold Camping Apologizes For Lying to The Gullible

It may come as no shock to anyone that the world did NOT end on the predicted date of 10/21/11 by false prophet and charlatan Harold Camping. After making 20 years of false predictions, Camping has decided to throw in the towel and retire. Camping seemed merely "disappointed" by his failed predictions, now racked with bad feelings that he is no longer in a position to lead the ministry.  Most people who predict stuff like this all the time end up in a fancy white jacket in a padded room where medications are used to sedate and anesthetize.  I guess the millions he made exploiting those with a low IQ prevents him from going to a loony-bin.  

In an audio message posted on Camping's Family Radio website, the 90-year-old mental patient told his sheep that the Rapture did not occur October 21 because it was ultimately God's will. "He could have stopped everything if He had wanted to," he said. Yeah, just like a genie in a lamp, just rub it and make a wish and there you go. Maybe God doesn't like you, thought about that?

In addition, he admits that his calculations were wrong and tells his followers that "we should be very patient about this matter. At least in a minimal way we are learning to walk more and more humble before God." Well, we know your calculations were wrong, because the rapture didn't happen, the three times you claimed it would. I bet he did the budget for Herb Cain's 9-9-9 plan. How much patience do people need? 20 years of lies? 2000 years? He said he cracked the Bible code, whatever that means, and KNEW when the world was going to end, even if the Bible explictly states that there is no pre-tribulation rapture. If there were one, along with Jesus returning to fight the forces of the anti-christ described in Revelation, that would have Jesus being on earth 3 times, not twice. Pre-tribulation rapture is a theory that was based on the fantasy of 3 different people and just repeated as part of Protestant Judeo Christian myth. Learning about this isn't that difficult, it requires a simple internet search which takes all of 15 seconds.

Camping also apologized for a controversial comment saying that God had stopped saving people who did not believe in his May 21 spiritual judgment day predictions. Camping points out that believers must continue studying the Bible, praying, and remembering that God is in charge.

Where is his faith? He should have continued predicting the end of the world. He would eventually have gotten it right or have died. His mistake was making the date too soon. I hope the next "prophet" does a better job. maybe add some magic underwear or something.  

So, it seems that the post rapture looting is out, I really wanted some Louboutins for the low. Is he refunding the money that he fleeced from his gullible followers that sold their homes, liquidated their bank accounts and made complete fools of themselves on national television. Just like most other Christian fundamenta­list ministers, he is a gigantic fraud. If only the public would also recognize the other charlatans like Ted Haggard, Joel Osteen, Jerry Falwell, John Hagee, Jimmy Swaggart and the rest of the starting line up on the TBN (the blasphemy network) are just as phoney as Camping, this world would be a better place.  

The only good news in this comedy of errors is that the jerk is over 90 years of age and can hardly enjoy the fruits of his blasphemou­s endeavors. It should be a mortal sin to act or speak in such a way so as to pretend to be somehow officially connected with "God." On the other hand, there will always be suckers in this world who will buy any line of "bull" if it gives them hope.

Blasphemy­: the crime of assuming to oneself the rights or qualities of God.  

The next so called "prophet" needs to have rocks placed in his or her pocket and thrown in the ocean, if he or she drowns then they are false prophets. If they float, then they are prophets, but since we won't be sure of which deity they speak for, they should be burned at the stake. I got dibs on the marshmallows!

I have half a mind to sue this guy, we were promised a bunch of raptures and we never got one. I'm saddened, disappointed, shattered and not to mention raptureless.

Pat Robertson...Crack is Whack and So are You

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Pat Robertson speaks directly with, and to, God. The two are equals. God creates wealth to only those he deems worthy. Robertson, like Jesus, saves. Don't you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? Robertson demands that his personal friend tell him what “He” will tell no one else: what is going to happen in the future. Robertson’s god is close and uses the televangelist to reveal the deity’s designs for doom and Armageddon. Apparently, that is all God is capable of these days, either granting the Pastor great wealth on the back of the church members or all consuming wrath because he wants to destroy his own creation in the most convoluted overly dramatic imaginable way instead of just scrapping the project and starting fresh.



Pat Robertson has a new job outside of insane charlatan, racist, bigot and failed fortune teller; he can now add seismologist to the list. This week, CBN’s flagship program did a week-long special series on “The Sign of the Times.” Well, talk about synergy, because this week has brought us an earthquake on the East Coast and a hurricane. After the earthquake hit, you might remember reports that the Washington Monument sustained a minor crack. (You know that's soooooo unusual).
Pat Robertson wondered if it was really all the hurricane’s fault, or if the crack was a sign from God. However, he was careful to preface his remarks with the following:


“I don’t want to get weird on this…” Naturally. Speculate all you want on the supernatural causes of mysterious cracks, but let’s not have things getting weird. Robertson continues:




"It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at that monument and we say, ‘This is one nation under God.’ Now there’s a crack in it. There’s a crack in it, and it’s closed up. Is that a sign from the Lord, is it something that has significance or is it just a result of an earthquake? You judge."
Really Pat? I never thought the Washington Monument symbolized America's power or "one nation under God". I thought it was a memorial to our first president George Washington, hence the name, WASHINGTON MONUMENT, or if you want to match crazy, it looks like a giant penis. Is a crack in a 125 year old building or any building for that matter, after an earthquake unusual? Apparently in Lala Land. Here is an extra credit question for you Pat? Who is buried in Grant's tomb? Maybe he believes that the Jefferson Memorial was named after George Jefferson. Maybe Pat knows if God has a penis since he and God are so close. Why don't you get that spackle that's on your face to fix the crack in the monument you lying vampire.


Pat’s god speaks to Robertson much like a drunken sailor: in parables, asides, and latent images that hint at things that might happen. Pat’s god also told the wealthy preacher (net worth is speculated to be over $1 billion) that major cities and possibly millions of people would be affected by the attack, which should have taken place sometime before the end of Obama’s first year in office. Guess his alluminum hat got a bad reception. To Robertson, god is a pathetic, evil-minded pornographic-loving violator of women and children and the elderly in a constant hunger to see slaughter, war, pestilence, famine and a few jolly tortures—much like the god of the Old Testament. What's even worse, the so called "christians" are in perfect agreement with him and his warped interpretation of God.


God, in the strictest of confidence, but with the most poignant admonition to Robertson ordered the preacher to “go forth into the world and spread the news” of the celestial Tyrant who delights in tragedy.


Pat cannot be stopped. He will not be silenced. His predictions are yearly and sometimes daily. In many ways he imitates the Gates of Heaven’s founder, as well as the radio star Harold Camping who predicted that the world would end on May 21, 2011.




Robertson predicted that Russia would invade Israel in 1982. It did not happen. The multimillionaire minister projected a worldwide economic collapse in 1985. It did not happen. And the televangelist tantalized his cult followers by predicting that US Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) would be elected president in 1996. In 1998, Robertson warned Orlando, Florida, it was to feel the wrath of God. God would never forgive the city–nor Disney World–for offending the terrible deity. All were to be punished by god who would strike the city with hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes. Robertson’s warning, his angry announcement of the vengeance that his god would wrack upon the popular tourist attraction and on the homes of its citizens came after Orlando, Florida, city officials voted in 1998 to fly rainbow flags from city lampposts during the annual Gay Days event at Disney World. Speaking for his god, Robertson issued the city this deprecation denouncing their tolerance of the LGBT community:



“I don’t think I’d be waving those flags in God’s face if I were you. … A condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It’ll bring about terrorist bombs, it’ll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor”.

Here is one of his greatest hits:

On September 11, 2001, Robertson justified the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the USA. He pontifically predicated:


“We have allowed rampant pornography on the Internet, and rampant secularism and the occult, etc. to be broadcast on television. We have permitted somewhere in the neighborhood of 35-40 million unborn babies to be slaughtered by our society.“We have a court that has essentially stuck its finger in God’s eye and said, “We are going to legislate You out of the schools and take Your commandments from the courthouses in various states. We are not going to let little children read the commandments of God. We are not going to allow the Bible or prayer in our schools.”
“We have insulted God at the highest level of our government. Then, we say, “Why does this happen?” It is happening because God Almighty is lifting His protection from us. Once that protection is gone, we are vulnerable because we are a free society”.









So, 9/11 happened not because of terrorism, Bin Laden, you know the people that actually claimed they did the act in question and not for the reasons they said they did it. No...It was because of gay's, secularism, the occult, abortion and prayer in school. It's the 10 commandments, something that has absolutely nothing to do with the legal system, being taken out of the courthouse. Because God has hurt feelings, we suffered the greatest terrorist attack on American soil, even though Bin Laden took the rap for it for an entirely different modus operandi. Ok. Project Patty Poo.





In July 2003, Robertson came close to calling for the assassination of US Supreme Court Justices, but backed off, urging the 700 Club audience to pray for God to remove three justices from the Supreme Court so they could be replaced by conservatives. I feel the love of Christ all over that one. “We ask for miracles in regard to the Supreme Court,” Robertson said as he launched a 21-day “prayer offensive” directed at the Supreme Court. Robertson is quoted in a letter on the CBN website that the court “has opened the door to homosexual marriage, bigamy, legalized prostitution and even incest;” None of which had occurred or even is before the current conservative justices. The same letter targeted three justices in particular: “One justice is 83-years-old, another has cancer and another has a heart condition. Would it not be possible for God to put it in the minds of these three judges that the time has come to retire?” Can't God put it in your heart to just shut up?




In August 2005, Pat Robertson demanded that the USA assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: “We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don’t need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It’s a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.” He noted, “You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war … and I don’t think any oil shipments will stop”. Oh, but what about the 10 commandments Pat? Isn't there something about killing in there? I guess we can sort of make allowances for people we don't like because America is the only "godly" nation left, right? I mean where do these people come from? Don't pray for me Pat, Pray for yourself and the obvious brain dead minions that fall for your ponzi scheme and send you money every month. What type of Christian openly advocates for the death of another human being on National TV? How is he any different than the tyrant that he wants to have killed? This is almost like putting a hit out on someone, and of course we have to make sure that we keep the oil shipments going. All of the brown people are nothing more than gas station attendants who are here to just produce oil and give it up to God's chosen Nation. Are you serious?!





In November 2005, Robertson turned bitterly against the citizens of Dover, PA, barking that since the people of Dover had rejected God by voting their school board out of office for supporting “Intelligent Design”:


“I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city… And don’t wonder why He hasn’t helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I’m not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that’s the case, don’t ask for His help because he might not be there” as Robertson’s god is not only intolerant but will maintain hatred for those who defy him or his prophets. Right...how dare people want to have actual science taught in school over religion? Intelligent design should be left in the church pews and not in a science class. THIS IS WHY THEY'RE BEATING US!




In January 2010, Robertson argued nationwide that the devastating earthquake in Haiti results from a “pact with the devil” made by the people of Haiti in the early 19th Century just prior to their revolt against the French. Did he grab a Deloreon and travel back in time to see this pact with Satan or does he know because he is in fact Satan himself and he has first hand knowledge of the conversation? Terrorist fist jab with Satan for the Win!



Terrorist Fist Jab with Satan




After the New York State Legislature voted to legalize same-sex marriages, Robertson dourly predicted Judgment Day was at hand:


“I think we need to remember the term sodomy came from a town known as Sodom and Sodom was destroyed by God Almighty and the thing that they practiced was homosexual activity and even they tried to rape angels who came down there, so that’s the kind of people they were,” Robertson said. God “sent an angel down there and He said to Lot and his family, ‘get out now because I’m gonna destroy this whole area.’”“We’re heading that way as a nation. In history there’s never been a civilization ever in history that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity, traditional marriage, traditional child-rearing, and has survived. There isn’t one single civilization that has survived that openly embraced homosexuality. So you say, ‘what’s going to happen to America?” Well if history is any guide, the same thing’s going to happen to us,’” he predicted.


Robertson also admitted that Jesus “didn’t say anything about the homosexuality.”


News flash Bible scholar: the stunning stupidity shown to the world by Robertson’s lack of education, non-existent knowledge of language or word meaning exposes his ignorance. The word “homosexual” appears no where in either the Jewish nor Christian Bibles, nor in Islam’s Quran (it was not even invented before the end of the nineteenth century). Not only does the bible reject the contemporary fundamentalist interpretation of the City of Sodom being destroyed because of gay marriage or same-sex sexuality, it clearly states that the sin in Sodom was Lot’s incest with his two daughters, making both pregnant . His translation skills do not exist (he barely has a command of the English language) but his interpretation skills are a fantasy. God's only dislikes America a little and puts cracks in things, but really hates dark and brown people and wipes them out according to this muppett.






Let's talk about traditional marriage, when we have shows on TV called Flavor of Love, Rock of Love, Who wants to Marry a Millionaire, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, etc...we don't hold traditional marriage in that high regard. Every society has had gays, arranged marriages, polygamy, etc...Alexander the Great was bi-sexual and he was one of the greatest rulers in the world and ruled over one of the greatest societies in the world. Every period had gays, so this notion that gays are some new abnormality that will ruin society is crazy. Let them get married, let them die a little more inside like the rest of us.



I seriously fear that this man is suffering from a mental illness along with his followers. He is such a moron and it appears that he passes out crack rocks instead of crackers at communion. Maybe we need to rescue God from the wacko's like you and all the rodeo clowns on TBN. Since Robertson explained the crack in the monument, maybe he can explain the crack in his head




Lord protect us from your people...