Ed, that amendment was obviously pushed by the enemies of Christ and Christians with a plan to push I. Before that, preachers could say anything. After the amendment, the enemies of Christianity pushed a propaganda campaign and incentivized attorneys and tax accountants to push their services on churches to rush to sign up for a tax exemption. They used pictures of pastors behind bars.
There are a few consultants now announcing their services to churches to help them get free of those shackles. Chuck Baldwin is one.
The Johnson amendment was a strategic 'first strike' to soften up the expected opposition to the planned deluge of lawsuits soon to be taken to the Supreme court aimed at eliminating Christian participation in the political, social, and moral debates in America. Thanks to the timidity of church leaders the effort was highly successful.
Recently, with the Trump IRS and DOJ announced that they would no longer enforce the Johnson amendment - which is incredibly good news. But the clergy don't seem to have even noticed this, nor do they seem to care. They appear to be suffering from the well-known 'Stockholm Syndrome' where the victims of persecution eventually take on the values and viewpoints of their persecutors. I wish I knew how the Christian world can recover from this. But when the churches themselves do not want to recover, where do we go from there?
I doubt that Johnson came up with that amendment on his own. LBJ was a stupid man, thoughtless and unprincipled, and obviously controlled by his handlers. I suspect that the amendment was handed to him, and his fellow senators mounted no real opposition, which indicates to me that most of them were controlled by the same handlers as 'Lyin' Lyndon' was.
Ed, that amendment was obviously pushed by the enemies of Christ and Christians with a plan to push I. Before that, preachers could say anything. After the amendment, the enemies of Christianity pushed a propaganda campaign and incentivized attorneys and tax accountants to push their services on churches to rush to sign up for a tax exemption. They used pictures of pastors behind bars.
There are a few consultants now announcing their services to churches to help them get free of those shackles. Chuck Baldwin is one.
The Johnson amendment was a strategic 'first strike' to soften up the expected opposition to the planned deluge of lawsuits soon to be taken to the Supreme court aimed at eliminating Christian participation in the political, social, and moral debates in America. Thanks to the timidity of church leaders the effort was highly successful.
Recently, with the Trump IRS and DOJ announced that they would no longer enforce the Johnson amendment - which is incredibly good news. But the clergy don't seem to have even noticed this, nor do they seem to care. They appear to be suffering from the well-known 'Stockholm Syndrome' where the victims of persecution eventually take on the values and viewpoints of their persecutors. I wish I knew how the Christian world can recover from this. But when the churches themselves do not want to recover, where do we go from there?
I doubt that Johnson came up with that amendment on his own. LBJ was a stupid man, thoughtless and unprincipled, and obviously controlled by his handlers. I suspect that the amendment was handed to him, and his fellow senators mounted no real opposition, which indicates to me that most of them were controlled by the same handlers as 'Lyin' Lyndon' was.
Yes, very likely.