Politics and Church

This is in response to the CBSNews.com article here:  In IRS Protest, Pastors Back Candidates.  Apparently, a group of churches made political statements in an effort to protest the IRS rule that tax exempt churches can’t intervene in politics.

I totally agree with the pastors who want to be able to speak.  Free speech is pretty nifty after all.  However, they should have to pay the same price of admission that I do, and no longer be tax exempt.  Some of these churches could pay for whole communities with the tax dollars they haven’t paid through the years.  Many an evangelist has made quite the lifestyle using this rule.

So it’s that simple.  If you want to be involved in government, you should really be involved in government and help out your country by paying taxes.  Otherwise, you can tell your friends your opinion outside of church events like a lot of us do, and maybe spend church time helping people who are in need now.  You know, the homeless, the sick, the dying?  Those people Jesus wanted to help?

Believe me, there is NO god in politics.  The political arena gives us some of the most selfish, egomaniacal, practically evil people in the world.  Let church be church and keep politics outside the doors, even if only to give people an escape from all the crap, or join the rest of us in throwing our tax dollars into the abyss.  It’s the cost of admission and it’s fair.