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Well, that and the eternal damnation of your soul. They'd probably rehypothecated theirs already, but it's worth noting that: Absolution of an accomplice is a s
by kurthr 3y ago
Well, that and the eternal damnation of your soul. They'd probably rehypothecated theirs already, but it's worth noting that: Absolution of an accomplice is a sin that incurs automatic excommunication.
- Onavo 3y agoBy doctrine, you can’t be criminally punished for offences by the church if you confess to your superior.
- mbork_pl 3y agoInteresting, source?
- whstl 3y agoI wonder if I can use this strategy to stop paying the church tax in Germany. I was baptised Catholic but never practiced. But since the catholic church is internationally integrated I gotta pay the tax perpetually unless I get excommunicated.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoYou need to pay an enforced tax? Is it levied by the government on behalf of the church or is there official papal taxmen? Seems like you should try to speed run excommunication. After all, there's a lot of fun ways to sin in the eyes of god.
- whstl 3y agoIt is paid on the salary. You have to declare yourself that you're part of a religion, though.
- Joker_vD 3y agoExcuse me, that what tax?
- whstl 3y agoI know, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax Protestants and members of other religions don't really have to pay unless they're a member of a church in German, but since the Catholic Church is centralized, everyone who was baptized has to pay. Yeah it sucks.
- cancerhacker 3y agoI had never heard of this before[1] (as a sheltered obtuse American) - this seems like exactly the sort of thing that the US separation of church and state was established for. It looks like the church can opt you into their fold using deceptive dark practices - if this were the US, it would be like if registering with ancestry.com opted you into mandatory Mormon tithes[2]. [1] https://allaboutberlin.com/glossary/Kirchensteuer https://allaboutberlin.com/glossary/Kirchensteuer [2] https://www.pbs.org/mormons/etc/genealogy.html https://www.pbs.org/mormons/etc/genealogy.html
- whstl 3y agoIn Germany's case it's only the Catholic Church that does this shady stuff. It should have been like other churches, that only charge you if you frequent them in Germany. But the Catholic Lobby is strong, so if you have a register of baptism in Papua New Guine they will chase you and charge back taxes, even if your parents left the church, forgot to tell you about baptism, and were adopted by a family of another religion. Ooops.
- mavhc 3y agoWhy haven't you left yet? Obvious scam is obvious
- whstl 3y agoToo much bureaucracy and I have to go back to my country for it, even to the same city/parish, apparently. And they might take their time and just "deny" it! It needs the approval of a Bishop or something like that. I'm considering other avenues. Someone mentioned I can also be excommunicated if I punch the pope, but so far I'm trying to avoid violent solutions.
- eska 3y agoThat’s not true. You sign a form where you write where you were baptized, if you remember, and that’s it. You have to pay for the privilege of exiting, however, although it was your parents who signed you up. Absolutely insanity.