You’re conflating the Christian church with the Christian faith. Any structure that relies upon the endowment of others will always find a way to spend the money regardless of use. The church is no different than government and the founding fathers well understood that. This however is not a slight of the Christian faith or it’s practitioners as they are the same as the taxpayers, born into a system that latches on to them with no plausible recourse.
Well, it seems the New Religion is certainly adopting the trappings of the Old Church, but it's got some gaps to fill. It's got things like excommunication, but it's still sorting out its mythological framework.
You’re conflating the Christian church with the Christian faith. Any structure that relies upon the endowment of others will always find a way to spend the money regardless of use. The church is no different than government and the founding fathers well understood that. This however is not a slight of the Christian faith or it’s practitioners as they are the same as the taxpayers, born into a system that latches on to them with no plausible recourse.
Well, it seems the New Religion is certainly adopting the trappings of the Old Church, but it's got some gaps to fill. It's got things like excommunication, but it's still sorting out its mythological framework.