Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, Jehovahs Witnesses, is there any difference.?
It was not a matter of supporting Jimmy Swaggart, it was about the status of tax exemption. With this decision, the Supreme Court made it clear that the “Free Exercise Clause accordingly does not require the State to grant appellant an exemption from its generally applicable sales and use tax.” In other words, there is no constitutional protections for tax exemptions for religious organizations. If governments provide tax exemptions to other non-profit groups, they cannot deny the same exemptions to some groups based solely on the existence of religious affiliation. However, governments are not required to provide tax exemptions generally or special tax exemptions available only to religious organizations.
Yes (to the first question in bold). Jehovah’s Witnesses are relatively unique among self-described Christians in that they understand the Scriptures to teach that God’s Kingdom by Christ Jesus is a real government which will soon replace all earthly governments. …(Daniel 2:44) God of heaven will set up a kingdom… It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite That Kingdom will rule over the vast majority of mankind, most of whom will have been raised from the dead after Armageddon. …(John 11:23,24) Jesus said to her: “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” …(Acts 24:15) There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous. Until that resurrection, there is no suffering in “hell”, or the grave. Sometime after the resurrection, death and “hell” will themselves be destroyed. …(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will di
