Get Financed By the Church

Posted on March 19th, 2007 by Christopher.
Categories: Religion.

Now I know that I haven’t seen it all, but sometimes I really honestly believe there isn’t that many things left in the world that will appall me. $40+ meals with a few slices of meat don’t faze me, Christine demanding to be let out of the car at a stop light barely makes my pulse quicken but today when I opened my mail and was glancing through what I usually would consider not even worth my time junk mail from churches. These churches obviously don’t know that I’m beyond saving, I like to sin.. and I’m usually not all that sorry after I do it… so I think it is safe to say that I’m officially a lost cause.

So when I read the words…
“It’s Tax Season and You May Need some Help” I thought, I wonder what type of help this church up in Palos Verdas is offering.

“Dear Friends, Let us help you pay for your taxes this season” hmm.. sounds great! I could use that kind of help!

“Join us for brunch, lunch, Sunday and Thursday service and our special Tax financing on Saturdays at “Vista Verde Shopping Center”…. ok ok I get it they want to finance my Tax bill.. what is in it for them…. they can’t be doing this out of the goodness of their heart right…? So I scanned the page some more.. found the fine print and buried in that fine print was the 17% interest rate they were charging people to help pay off that tax bill. OUCH. Considering a my credit cards hover around 9% and a regular loan would never cost more then 14% it didn’t seem like this church was trying to help people at all. Basically it just wanted a piece of the screwing.. oh these people are screwed they have to pay some Taxes.. we should make some money off this, oh I know we can use our deep pockets to finance people and make 17% interest off them.

I’m not much of a fan of organized religion and I usually see it as a tool to manipulate the masses, generally however I don’t have ultra negative feelings, however in light of this newest piece of junk mail it is obvious that some churches… (regular Christian churches) have decided to enter into the realm of screwing up peoples finances, I think it might be time to change the laws so that religious organizations also pay taxes, especially in light of the fact they want to wear the banker’s hat instead of wielding the sole cleansing wand.

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