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the cult's hidden mythologies.  I have elected to quote just a bit of the
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Subject: Re: The Noose is Tightening on CoS (was Big Suprise - 79K) (LONG)
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On 14 Jul 1995 18:26:14 -0400, Jeffrey Maass (jmaass@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:
:R. Urban (a#urban@ccmail.ceco.com) wrote:
:: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) wrote:
:: (sniP)

:: This is not intended to start a flame war, but you need to have more 
:: tolerance for beliefs that are different than your own, particularly 
:: those that are shared by minorities. (In case you are wondering, I was 
:: born and raised a Catholic.) And, if we don't protect the religious 
:: freedom of the minority, then the religious freedom of the majority will 
:: eventually be jeapordized.

:: If you and your gang succeed in getting the IRS to tax minority 
:: religions, then that makes me wonder how long it'll be before the IRS 
:: goes after the rest of the religions. The assets alone of the Catholic 

:You say that like it's a bad thing!
:Sorry, religion is just another business that should be taxed. Doing
:otherwise encourages and supports it, in violation of the Establishment
:Clause.
:Tax them all equally, and the IRS can get out of the business of defining
:what is a "valid" religion. 

And don't forget: The Church of the SubGenius is the *only* religion that
pays *all* its taxes.

And it's EXPANDING! EXPANDING! EXPANDING ALL THE TIME! Woopsy.


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