Wonder if Joe Osteen will apply for help? His millions probably won’t pay for all the mops and buckets he had to purchase to clean up the mess created by the Harvey victims he sheltered in his chapel.
Wait a minute … he kept the doors locked! SWEET JESUS!
How will they respond when the Satanists come calling?
I have no problem with this. Churches are often the center of aid to a community in crisis, and leaving them off seems ridiculous.
That said, I hate the idea of giving them a tax exemption then allowing them to engage in politics. If you want to be a church and a political organization, the gov’t shouldn’t subsidize the political part. Start a PAC.
If churches do serve their communities, many pick and chose whom they find most deserving of their help, and often it comes with strings (“can I share Jesus with you?”). They already enjoy supreme privilege under the tax code. Maybe aid should be tied to churches that need it most, rather than megachurches that can take care of themselves.
Bullshit! No taxes, no taxpayer funded aid.
Great so now tax payers can pay for damages (upgrades) to churches after a storm.
In a Christ like manner?