Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society should not qualify for 501c3 status

[Jack Ryan]

found this little gem on the IRS website: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-purposes

The exempt purposes set forth in Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3) are charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition, and the prevention of cruelty to children or animals.  The term charitable is used in its generally accepted legal sense and includes relief of the poor, the distressed, or the underprivileged; advancement of religion; advancement of education or science; erection or maintenance of public buildings, monuments, or works; lessening the burdens of government; lessening neighborhood tensions; eliminating prejudice and discrimination; defending human and civil rights secured by law; and combating community deterioration and juvenile delinquency.

 

Not only does the WTBTS not prevent cruelty to children, they aid and abet in the cruelty to children. And I'm guessing that making a contract with minors and holding them to it, is a violation of human rights.

Should the IRS be notified?

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

You have misinterpreted what that paragraph is saying.

The Society does not foster ideals to prevent cruelty to animals, international amateur sports competition, or the erection and maintenance of public buildings ... EITHER!

You can notify the IRS if you want to .... but last year, in all the United States, you know how many religious organizations were audited or censured, by the IRS ?

ONE

[TrueTomHarley]

Every NT writer wrote about opposition and apostasy. If it happened then, it should happen now. What if there was no opposition today? Wouldn’t you have to wonder why?

Search out JWs on social media and you find a barrage of criticism. Search out most other religion and you simply find standard theological content. It should be taken as more evidence that what Witnesses have is the truth. It would not be so determinedly opposed were that not the case.

Since Witnesses do not seek to evade taxes, they pay into social & police services to a greater proportion than most groups. Since they put into practice Bible principles that improve lives, they draw upon those services to a much lesser degree. THAT is the basis that they would qualify for any charitable exemptions that exist. That is the reason that such exemption was offered to religious institutions in the first place—the rationale that by  improving the lives of those they touch, they take strain off the institutions trying to govern people

[JW Insider]

3 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

Search out most other religion and you simply find standard theological content.

I'm finding less and less of that "standard stuff" when you search on names of denominations. There was and still is a lot of talk in some countries of treating the Catholic Church as a "criminal organization" due to the high percentage of child abuse accusations. There were some schools and insitutions within the church where the percentage of accusations was so high that if it were found in any other institution, the entire organization would have been seen as a sex trafficking ring. But the Catholic Church gets a pass because of a traditional, historical reputation of promoting faith and peace (in spite of some pretty big lapses: Inquisition, Trinity, Hell, Purgatory, Hitler, and nearly half this world's wars).

3 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

they take strain off the institutions trying to govern people

Also, as you mention, religious charities and "life improvements" take the strain off the institutions that try to govern. This is what keeps the beast from turning on those who ride on its back, tax-free. And, of course, the ability of a religion to make an immoral war seem moral to its constituents is a cozy form of payback to the beast, in lieu of taxes. The symbiotic relationship between beast and rider has saved her so far. But there have been exceptions when the religion apparently offers nothing useful in return to the state: no charities, no strain relief, and no help in military recruitment. This is why the Watchtower was one of the religious organizations picked on by the FBI back in 1918. This is why the Scientologists barely escaped the clutches of the beast a few decades ago. With Islam in the last couple decades, too, it's the nature of the beast to overreact.

[Arauna]

Political systems everywhere are excellent bedfellows with Islam.  UN migration compact signed by 176 countries last year has a clause which forbids criticism of migration (in effect also migrant crimes).

Migration in Europe is mostly from north African or middle east countries which are from ' the religion of peace " - which has political aspirations to rule the world

[TrueTomHarley]

Oh, that video of me doing despicable things?

 

It is a deep fake.

 

People, can we move on now?

 

‪What do you mean, “last days?” What on earth is wrong with you? We almost have this planet fixed.‬ Jack is putting the finishing touches on it right now. 

 

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