Atheists & Agnostics

cleanhippie

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13. I give L. Ron much credit for pulling that off.

Mon Oct 12, 2015, 10:20 AM

Oct 2015

If there's two things I admire about Mr. Hubbard it is his ability to replicate the draw of more traditional religions for his own transparent and personal gain, then get the government to subsidize the whole thing based on nothing more than "If you're going to subsidize those religions, you have to subsidize mine."

Sadly, the IRS lost the only plausible chance it's ever had or going to have to pull the tax-exempt status from all religion. A missed opportunity, to say the least.

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