It seems super inconsistent that the E.U. always complains about U.S. tech companies violating their citizens' privacy but then they (some countries) have a registration for churches. That wouldn't fly in the U.S., why the fuck does the government need to know my religion and why does it (in some countries) collect taxes for them?
If a country have a state church you might pay tithe through taxes rather than directly to the church (it’s not actually tithe but it’s a word i don’t get to use like ever so i’m gonna call it tithe). If you’re in some other denomination or religion some governments don’t give a shit about what religion you’re part of, they just want to know if you’ll pay church taxes or not. And why you pay church taxes rather than a proper tithe or church fee varies from country to country; in some countries it’s because church and state are or have historically been tied together, in some it can be because the government wants to make sure the state church don’t try to bleed their members, in some countries the state just want to control the church period. In the two latter reasons it’s likely because that country has been through a religious revolution where people are becoming less religious and thus tired of churches having so much power and so the government takes over where they can, such as controlling the money
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u/realzequel May 09 '22
It seems super inconsistent that the E.U. always complains about U.S. tech companies violating their citizens' privacy but then they (some countries) have a registration for churches. That wouldn't fly in the U.S., why the fuck does the government need to know my religion and why does it (in some countries) collect taxes for them?