Reply #41: Let them campaign after getting taxed. [View All]

[TWiley]

But why lump all non-profits together? Money tithed to the church is the worst possible charitable donation there is. The average church spends about 0.01% of revenue on doing good deeds for the needy.

Their mission (in the fundamentalist world anyway) is to convert the entire planet to christianity. Their goal is more political by this nature in the first place.

Plato (book "The Republic" and father of the Republican race) Believed the best way to govern was with a small and powerful ruling class and a large peasant / slave class. He felt the best way to accomplish this was through the legislation of personal morality. Today, most Republican ideals are cast into this "moral light" Same sex marriage, Abortion, and Stem Cells, are only a few examples of their effort to legislate the "morality" of individuals. By nature many churches preach Conservative politics.

Democrats, on the other hand, tend to believe in the values of Aristotle. Aristotle believed the best way to rule was from a large middle class to protect against the tyranny of either the rich or the poor. Aristotle also felt that commerce needed moral regulation, and not th individual. Today Democrats believe in the personal liberty of the individual, and also in the legislation of the morality of commerce or capitalism. It is immoral to destroy the planet just to make a buck.

Of course there are many shades to this discussion, nothing is all one way or the other so that it will fit neatly into a clearly labled boxe.