Faith based horror stories

[Mari333]

and a good reason why church (monotheistic religions usually) and state dont mix..

http://www.thetimesherald.com/news/stories/20040124/localnews/287936.html

http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_2601132,00.html

[stepnw1f]

1. This is dangerous for both Church and State.

There is a shift in government policy here to literally pass the governments' social responsibilities onto the back of the church. The ironic part is that the Church is blindly going to suffer from this too. If faith-based organisations ever detested the idea of having the government getting into their business, they should be very worried now. Sounds frightenly similar to medieval governing over the poor.

[Malva Zebrina]

5. Surely they will be in hock to the government

no matter who is in charge. If they are willing to do that, they must be desperate because it will be the government they have to worship in order to stay viable.

If they do not care much about that an care more about funding their newly built cathedrals or conference centers, then they deserve to be run by the state.

Too bad that they could not sustain themself and need to go to the government for welfare for that is what I see it as

Government church welfare programs. And to add to the confusion--no oversight and no consitutional mandates--just handing over our money to these private schools and these church based "charities"

[randr]

2. This whole issue reminds one of the potato

famine in Ireland. The British would only feed those who converted from Catholicism to the Protestant Church of England. Thus began a schism in the dear isle that lasts to this day.

[cosmicdot]

3. wonder how much litigation will arise as a result of faith-based Bu$hism?

if the subject line was larger, I would have added "unncessary" and "avoidable" ... faith-based Bu$hism doesn't build bridges, it builds walls ... not to mention the unconstitutionality of it ...

[greekspeak]

4. It sickens me to use food for the starving as a carrot

and religion as the stick. "Worship my god or starve" is a disgusting, hideous message to be sending with American tax dollars. Its sickening enough without the tax dollars, to use life's basics to force religion.

[mike1963]

6. But in the final analysis, it isn't any worse than promising 'eternal life

72 virgins in paradise or any of the other fantastic craziness they promote - and pretend to believe.
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