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AtheistCrusader

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12. And of course the catholic church will lie cheat and steal to get that money too.

Mon Jul 20, 2015, 12:28 PM

Jul 2015

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=25430

The government of Norway is demanding $5.1 million from the Oslo diocese, in compensation for what the government sees as fraud in the inflated reporting of Church membership figures.

The government charges that the Oslo diocese obtained nearly $6 million in state subsidies by routinely registering immigrants as Catholics if they came from predominantly Catholic countries, without obtaining any evidence of the immigrants’ actual affiliations. The government charges that of the 65,500 new Catholics registered by the Oslo diocese between 2010 and 2014, more than 56,000 were not confirmed as Catholics.

Fucking thieves. Stealing for jesus.

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Mass exodus continues from German Catholic Church [View all] deucemagnet Jul 2015 OP

looks like you are officially enrolled at some stage uriel1972 Jul 2015 #1

Yes, you must have been posting as I was editing. deucemagnet Jul 2015 #3

Apparently one tells the church to cancel registration Warpy Jul 2015 #2

I think that you hit the nail on the head. Curmudgeoness Jul 2015 #4

so the ones who drop the registration could still go to church. AlbertCat Jul 2015 #6

I don't know...would it be a sin? Curmudgeoness Jul 2015 #8

I wouldn't have thought there were that many Catholic Germans RussBLib Jul 2015 #5

Ben Franklin... onager Jul 2015 #7

Don't make it sound like so much fun Curmudgeoness Jul 2015 #9

Sort of like sneaking into a strip club without paying the cover charge. AlbertCat Jul 2015 #10

Since the church tax is fully deductible it seems to me that government is subsidizing the churches LiberalAndProud Jul 2015 #11

And of course the catholic church will lie cheat and steal to get that money too. AtheistCrusader Jul 2015 #12