As a point for discussion, a church's "business" is to care for the community. It does so primarily through outreach and service. As a church it does these voluntarily (without requiring payment from the customers of such services or products). The customers who "pay" a church are the congregation of said church, which are not required to join or remain with the church. The congregation *is* the church.
A cafe, as an example, provides a service and product for a fee. To me that is the essential difference. I'm sure there are more, but for the purpose of this particular question, I see that as being a difference as to how a church provides a public service in a different way from a cafe. Yours in community, Dan W. On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 11:15:33PM -0400, Vincent/Roger wrote: > This may be a sacrilige, but I think that as long as we have sales and > property taxes, then why shouldn't every operation have to pay them? [For > example, schools, universities, churches.] Granting exemptions to these > groups skews the real cost of these organizations. I guess most of them > do perform a real public service, but then so do cafes, to name just one > example (chosen at random). > Just sayin' .... > Roger ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
