European judges have rejected the Mormon Church’s human rights complaint against the British Government, forcing it to pay local property taxes on one of its English temples after a nine year court battle. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a religious organisation registered as a private unlimited company in the UK, was told in 2005 that it was not exempt from paying business tax on its temple in Preston, Lancashire. Because the public were not allowed access to the temple, which was reserved for the most devout Mormons, the High Court dismissed their appeal in July 2008. However, the church refused to accept the decision, claiming that it amounted to discrimination on religious grounds and taking their battle all the way to Strasbourg. Now the European Court of Human Rights has upheld the ruling of the British courts.
Why couldn’t God have told the Church they were going to lose before they spent 9 years and millions of Euro on legal fees?
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
Therefore temple, which is not open to the public, does not attract the full exemption, but does benefit from an 80% reduction in rates in view of its use for charitable purposes.
This was a claim of religious persecution over only getting an 80% exemption? And what charitable purposes could they even be referring to?
Therefore temple, which is not open to the public, does not attract the full exemption, but does benefit from an 80% reduction in rates in view of its use for charitable purposes.
This was a claim of religious persecution over only getting an 80% exemption? And what charitable purposes could they even be referring to?
Well that is pretty obvious now isn't it. The Mormon church prides itself on wasting spending the most money of any Christian religion helping out dead people. The deduction of 20% is probably figured on what value an actual living body adds in calculating charity work.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
I have a question wrote:Why couldn’t God have told the Church they were going to lose before they spent 9 years and millions of Euro on legal fees?
It just continuously blows me away how enough tithe paying Mormons aren't asking these questions.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
I have a question wrote:Why couldn’t God have told the Church they were going to lose before they spent 9 years and millions of Euro on legal fees?
It just continuously blows me away how enough tithe paying Mormons aren't asking these questions.
- Doc
What would be really mind blowing is had the church won their case the members would boast about how the Lord was fighting their battles and that the Lord's will oversaw justice. You can be sure that those idiot minded Mormons would have pawned it off as a modern miracle and proof that the church is true and led by a prophet of God.
Did I ever tell you how much I hate the Mormon church? Well, I do very much hate the church and its disgusting ways.
Now they have to pay taxes on top of paying for an under used building that is by appointment only? Gee, too bad for Mormon jebus and his henchmen.
I wonder how many other EU Countries will follow suit. After all free American money is never to be overlooked.
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