While I would like to believe it, I can't imagine the IRS acted that quickly. My guess is they may be opening an investigation.
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While I would like to believe it, I can't imagine the IRS acted that quickly. My guess is they may be opening an investigation.
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This makes me happy.Hope I never do anything to get Rachel Wolf made at me:
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This is the answer to the question "what is the point?".Hope I never do anything to get Rachel Wolf made at me:
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Agreed. We even have a modern version (Scientology) that was created as a con to avoid taxes. Amazing what people will believe and what governments allow them to get away with. I just hope one day, there will be either less money in it because enough people see through the BS that they can't buy our politicians.This is the answer to the question "what is the point?".
It is a con. It has always been a con. All religions. The priests get power, respect, prestige, women, and money. From ancient shamans to modern tax-exempt LLC companies, it has always been the same story.
Preceded by the ultimate cult, Mormonism.Agreed. We even have a modern version (Scientology) that was created as a con to avoid taxes. Amazing what people will believe and what governments allow them to get away with. I just hope one day, there will be either less money in it because enough people see through the BS that they can't buy our politicians.
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At first glance, I thought it was the playmaker in the video.
https://people.com/human-interest/p...rch-member-takes-the-mic-alleging-she-was-16/
Pastor Admits to 'Adultery' During Service — But Then Female Church Member Takes the Mic: 'I Was Just 16'
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Yes, it means we can just put it on sky daddy instead of actually taking action to do anything to fix anything.Did any of that mean anything?
That is just...exasperatingly arrogant morally corrupt and intellectually redundant bollocks. Rage inducing.Tweet
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It means you can't turn to God without doing what the Christian Right tells you to do, using Guns for Jesus if necessary.Did any of that mean anything?
And yet another reason why people are turning away from religion in their droves.That is just...exasperatingly arrogant morally corrupt and intellectually redundant bollocks. Rage inducing.
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This fecker is on the down low.Tweet
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I don't remember that bit in the bible.Tweet
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its right after the part that says it’s cool to abuse kids and right before the part where we are commanded to buy our pastors a new Learjet.I don't remember that bit in the bible.
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It is worth noting that our study, by design, cannot tell anything about all kinds of prayer. It is studying only Roman Catholic prayers, of a very specific kind: rote intercessory prayers, repeated mechanically as a part of a Mass ritual, and most likely without any major emotional involvement, attachment to the person prayed for, or spatial proximity.
You have to pray to Joe PesciSo they tested the wrong sort of prayers? If so is there a list of the types of prayers that do and don't work?
If that's the conclusion. I'm just bringing transparency to the study because there are opposite ones that suggest prayers do work (be it placebo)So they tested the wrong sort of prayers? If so is there a list of the types of prayers that do and don't work?
50% of the time?If that's the conclusion. I'm just bringing transparency to the study because there are opposite ones that suggest prayers do work (be it placebo)
But we are only 67.3% sure of that50% of the time?
Meta analysis on studies have found that beneficial results aren't that common, often minor when found and even the often not able to be replicated. This study looks at a group that should get great benefit from being prayed for due but don't.If that's the conclusion. I'm just bringing transparency to the study because there are opposite ones that suggest prayers do work (be it placebo)
It dawned on me years ago that intercessory prayer really doesn’t make sense if you believe in an omnipotent and omniscient deity that has “a plan” for everything. If there’s a divine plan, then what exactly are you praying for? The all powerful, all knowing god isn’t gonna change his mind.Meta analysis on studies have found that beneficial results aren't that common, often minor when found and even the often not able to be replicated. This study looks at a group that should get great benefit from being prayed for due but don't.
https://academic.oup.com/abm/article/32/1/21/4743198