The Orthodox Church is a part of the Catholic Church but not part of the Roman Catholic Church. A Roman Catholic can fill the obligation to attend mass on Sunday by attending a Orthadox service.
You think that’s bizarre? Wait, it gets even weirder: Germans who are Catholics or Protestants pay the tax. The others pay nada.
Try this http://germanculture.about.com/library/facts/bl_churches.htm
It doesn’t go into the “others pay nada” part, but that’s the way it is. Not too long ago, a religion other than Protestant or Catholic was unthinkable in Germany, so they didn’t think of collecting the tax, say, from a Rastafarian. They wouldn’t even know where to send the money to. They would have to change the law for that, but nobody is thinking of that either: Since the third largest religion in Germany is Islam (due to influx of foreign workers), they would have to give the church of Islam the special legal status as public law corporation, along with a very large chunk of money, collected as taxes, and for some reason, this idea doesn’t want to get into their head. Feel free to draw your own conclsuions.
The tax part actually works against the Catholic and Protestant churches, because people, especially the affluent, leave the churches in droves. But I guess the churches look at it as free momey as opposed to money they really have to work for, and they rather lose some sheep than live of the donations of the herd …
You think that’s bizarre? Wait, it gets even weirder: Germans who are Catholics or Protestants pay the tax. The others pay nada.
Try this http://germanculture.about.com/library/facts/bl_churches.htm
It doesn’t go into the “others pay nada” part, but that’s the way it is. Not too long ago, a religion other than Protestant or Catholic was unthinkable in Germany, so they didn’t think of collecting the tax, say, from a Rastafarian. They wouldn’t even know where to send the money to. They would have to change the law for that, but nobody is thinking of that either: Since the third largest religion in Germany is Islam (due to influx of foreign workers), they would have to give the church of Islam the special legal status as public law corporation, along with a very large chunk of money, collected as taxes, and for some reason, this idea doesn’t want to get into their head. Feel free to draw your own conclsuions.
The tax part actually works against the Catholic and Protestant churches, because people, especially the affluent, leave the churches in droves. But I guess the churches look at it as free momey as opposed to money they really have to work for, and they rather lose some sheep than live off the donations of the herd …
You think that’s bizarre? Wait, it gets even weirder: Germans who are Catholics or Protestants pay the tax. The others pay nada.
Try this http://germanculture.about.com/library/facts/bl_churches.htm
It doesn’t go into the “others pay nada” part, but that’s the way it is. Not too long ago, a religion other than Protestant or Catholic was unthinkable in Germany, so they didn’t think of collecting the tax, say, from a Rastafarian. They wouldn’t even know where to send the money to. They would have to change the law for that, but nobody is thinking of that either: Since the third largest religion in Germany is Islam (due to influx of foreign workers), they would have to give the church of Islam the special legal status as public law corporation, along with a very large chunk of money, collected as taxes, and for some reason, this idea doesn’t want to get into their head. Feel free to draw your own conclusions.
The tax part actually works against the Catholic and Protestant churches, because people, especially the affluent, leave the churches in droves. But I guess the churches look at it as free momey as opposed to money they really have to work for, and they rather lose some sheep than live off the donations of the herd …
Sorry for the triple post. Not intended. Site got stuck and I hit the button too often …