Because those things are related. If you don’t spend all your revenue, you end up accumulating wealth - that’s profit. Which is directly in contradiction of being a nonprofit entity.
This is literally why the Congregationalists moved to Plymouth.
A bit disingenuous. They also didn’t want to be persecuted while having batshit insane ideas and did horrible persecution, even unto death and torture of others, unless I’m misremembering. Churches should not be allowed to persecute nor encourage persecution of others. It would be nice if they actually taught the whole Bible in a sane and honest way and let God do the judging.
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Because those things are related. If you don’t spend all your revenue, you end up accumulating wealth - that’s profit. Which is directly in contradiction of being a nonprofit entity.
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A bit disingenuous. They also didn’t want to be persecuted while having batshit insane ideas and did horrible persecution, even unto death and torture of others, unless I’m misremembering. Churches should not be allowed to persecute nor encourage persecution of others. It would be nice if they actually taught the whole Bible in a sane and honest way and let God do the judging.
We don’t, but civilized countries do.