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To: wideawake
Germany's Roman Catholic bishops have decreed that people who opt out of a "church tax" should not be given sacraments and religious burials, getting tougher on worshippers who choose not to pay.

Pray tell, where am I misinterpretating the facts? It appears that if you don't pay up, you are denied sacraments. Thus, if it's about money - those sacraments must be "for sale". It's quite logical, and seems pretty evident that this is the case.

19 posted on 09/24/2012 1:56:46 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: Hodar
It appears that if you don't pay up, you are denied sacraments. Thus, if it's about money - those sacraments must be "for sale".

Not really.

For a few people, the church tax is millions of euros. For many it is just a few euros or nothing at all (i.e. they did not make enough money to pay taxes, therefore they made no contribution).

If the bishops were saying that the Church required a minimum monetary contribution, I would say that you had a point.

But the bishops are more than willing to accommodate the faithful who have nothing to give. It is an issue of those deliberately refusing to support the Church as a matter of principle, as opposed to some kind of membership fee.

22 posted on 09/24/2012 2:04:35 PM PDT by wideawake
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