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16. If you are a church, you shouldn't be able to get insurance
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 12:53 PM
Mar 2016

When an insurance company pays a claim to a church, it pays from a pool of money collected from believers and non-believers alike. Taking money from non believers and handing it to a church is an act of tacit support. Giving support to a religion without people's knowledge is probably illegal.

There's probably something in the boilerplate insurance contract that's meant to insulate the company from legal exposure to this problem. Still, they could be required to disclose just where collected premium money is going. Then you'd have baptists not wanting to give their insurance money to the Catholics, who don't want to prop up the snake handlers, and so on. That could make the business of religion a little more complicated ... and expensive.

Maybe it wouldn't make a difference, but it's an approach to go after these theist businesses with that I don't recall being pursued before.

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