You’ d think freedom of religion would prevent a church, whose doctrines I find odious, from extorting money from me, yet it can do it in several ways:

• By avoiding taxes, meaning that I have to subsidise the services it consumes with my increased taxes.
• By making religious channels on TV part of the basic package. I must support those hucksters or go without TV.
• By government-sponsored faith-based initiatives. Churches get money from the government tax revenues supposedly to help the disadvantaged. They exploit that opportunity to sell their cults to those with weak sales resistance.

~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)