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Threads like these go on and on because no terms are defined and everyone is using similar words to mean different things.
From a quick google on the subject, a non-profit is defined as "an organization whose primary objective is to support an issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes, without concern for monetary profit." By that definition, my local Catholic church is a non-profit. It does not exist in order to create a profit and provides a number of valuable services to the community.
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I don't see why it should. Our budgeting process is fairly transparent. Once a year they explain what the expected expenses are for the upcoming period and ask for donations to meet that need. No extra money is asked for. Anything left over at the end of the year rolls over to the next year.
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you have to go back a bit farther, Dar.
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My local Catholic church has nothing to do with LRon.
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your local catholic church collects a tithing, i presume? I expect that they send at least some portion of that up the ladder toward Rome? (maybe I'm wrong about that) .....
ah, I'm being cute here....my real point was that IMO, religious orginizations (religions) exist in the first place because they are profitable. if there was no money/power/security in them, they would be practiced privately in peoples homes only.
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I have to disagree with the last point. Certainly a lot of praying gets done in private. But I certainly appreciate the sense of community and bonding that going to church offers. "Wherever two are more are gathered..."
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well, who can say, really? It is what it is. I don't go to church, and I sure as hell wouldn't go if I had to pay for it....Yet, I am glad to send my $300 to the cellar every month. ....that's what every one pays, right?
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Mmmhmmm...yup....bout that....
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Well the OP was saying that churches aren't non-profit. I disagree with that and gave a counter example. That's the only point I intended to make.
I respect people who have other beliefs than mine. I only ask that others respect my beliefs. The anti-Christian anti-church posts on the Cellar over the past year have become venomous.
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the argument was made, however that the excess income (remainder after expenses are met) that is used for expansion of the church is simply profit in sheep's clothing. semantics.
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Except for the fact that those semantics also apply to other nonprofit organizations who seek to grow.
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