"The Church at home and in the same Statue": declaration of rent and Church checkbox
The title of this article is Victor Hugor, a great French writer from the 19th century. The Christian writer was very clear that the Church and the State should be separated. Something similar is found in the Gospel of St. Matthew, 22,21: "Pay to Caesar what is of Caesar, and to God what is of God"; and in St. Luke, 16,13: "They cannot serve God and Money together." According to the Gospel, the merchants were expelled from the temple by Jesus himself, and now the Catholic Church has turned them into black markets (they charge entry and do not pay VAT) Mosque, Cathedral of Burgos, Giralda of Seville, etc. For the visit to the "museum" of the Virgen del Coro you also have to pay 3 euros.
Twenty years after the death of Victor Hugo in 1905, the law of separation between the Church and the French State considered the freedom of conscience and belief of all citizens as an essential element of a democratic State. That is why, given that all citizens are equal, the law says that "the Republic does not recognize any worship, pay, or subsidize". All this in France over a hundred years ago.
In the Spanish Constitution, Article 14 states that "The Spaniards are equal before the law and cannot be discriminated against on the basis of birth, race, sex, religion, opinion or any other personal or social condition or circumstance", and in Article 16 "no one may be obliged to declare about his ideology, religion or belief". However, when making the income statement, in some places we have to explain our beliefs. It is also pointed out that no religion will be of a state nature, but the State through these boxes brings together hundreds of millions for the Catholic Church and many of its institutions.
When making the income statement, in some places we have to explain our beliefs. The State through these boxes brings together hundreds of millions for the Catholic Church and many of its institutions.
The basic principles of laicity are three: 1. Freedom of conscience of all citizens, 2. Equality of all before public institutions and 3. Universality of public services. In Spain, the Catholic Church maintains a series of privileges that we pay among all citizens, as a result of the agreements reached from the Franco era to the current Concordato. Not only do Catholics, as the Church itself explains in its propaganda "for so many", pay no more than one euro for subsidizing the Church (some things also undermine it). In countries such as Germany and Denmark, if you check the churches check box, that part is only charged to you separately. And with that money you put, the churches are funded. In the case of Spain, we pay the Church with money from all taxpayers. With that money we all pay the salaries of bishops, priests and other religious people. By the way, the bishops charge far more of our taxes than the minimum wage charged by many of our fellow citizens.
Part of that money is used to finance television and radio, which because they're LGTBI, they're aborting, they're same-sex couples, they're transgender, they insult many of these taxpayers frequently and irreverently. Yes, we all pay our taxes to the Catholic Church and then deny our rights.
Bishops earn much more than the minimum wage than many of our fellow citizens
The World Health Organization stopped considering homosexuality as a disease in 1992. It was time! At present, however, some Spanish bishops (Oviedo, Alcalá, Córdoba, Munilla) continue to consider it as such and propose healing courses that they organize and finance with the money from our taxes. Munilla calls homosexuality "neurotic deviation," abortion as "female genocide," and relates "radical" feminism to the devil.
When the Catholic Church conducts a campaign to place the cross in its "Xtan" box, it argues that this money goes to Caritas, Manos Unidas and other institutions. What is going! The Church spends five times more on its media, such as COPE and TV13, than on these institutions. They are, of course, means of permanently denying many of the citizens who exercise their rights. We should remind these gentlemen that the right to homosexuality, for example, does not mean that it is an obligation, that nobody obliges them, as they want to do with others.
And while they continue to receive their taxpayers’ money, when the Ombudsman asks them for information and collaboration to investigate the pederastia of many of the members of the Church, many Spanish bishops have refused to cooperate and have said so publicly.
For these and other reasons we ask that no check be made in this year’s Income Statement.
Jesús González. Collective laicity.
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