The IRS’s God Complex: IRS signs secret pact with atheists, promising to investigate 99 churches.

National Review ^ | 08/04/2014 | Quin Hillyer

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"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish?
Nothing else."

~Epictetus

God bless this site, this Free Republic.
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Tragically, your Pastor is a rarity in today’s world.

TREASURE HIM!

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Well, there's "what the market will bear" and there's "what the people will bear".

At some point, the price of a given good or commodity slows or halts sales. Obviously, though, no matter how expensive or intrusive our "Constitutionally Limited Republican" form of government gets, the people will bear it and are doing so.

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RE: , the people will bear it and are doing so.

I think there’s one simple explanation... IT DOES NOT HAVE A DIRECT BEARING ON MOST PEOPLE’s LIVES, at least not now.

It’s “only” 99 churches the IRS is persecuting. Therefore, it does not concern them.

Remember the provocative poem attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the cowardice of German intellectuals following the Nazis’ rise to power and the subsequent purging of their chosen targets, group after group?

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

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nk it was the E.P.A. that was getting sued over different policies they couldn’t do on their own by “friendly environmental groups. Once it any to court they’d surrender without a real fight and create the policy they couldn’t get any way on their own plus have the defense they lost in court. I suspect this is a similar case as part of peeping the battlefield for 2016