Non-Catholic ministers don't take vows of poverty. Some are FAR from it.
Example?
A minister gets a base salary of $40,000 AND a housing allowance of $65,000.
Guess what he pays in federal income tax?
A paltry $740.
Click the link above to see all the bullshit deductions he gets.
That's why, per the interviews Dan Dennett had recently with atheist and agnostic ministers, I can sympathize with them not wanting to leave the ministry for financial reasons.
Having gotten my M.Div myself, with a pre-ministry undergraduate degree, and then willingly NOT gone down that route myself?
I could empathize, but I deliberately choose not to do so.
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December 22, 2010
Fleecing the IRS, if not the "flock"
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