People who have never filed Schedule S simply do not realize how much of the IRS is seat-of-the-pants and if you don't know the three types of appeals (tax court, real court, etc), you're in for a surprise.
Every time I've put effort into trying to be totally accurate and by the book as opposed to making a good faith effort primarily designed to survive an audit and not get in trouble has just turned into a terrifying spiral and I have an "easy" tax return.
There's two main thoughts on it.
Consensus is a very useful razor for communication, especially when you're so passionately wrong about this.
Do you consider "telling children god isn't real" on the same level of abuse as raping them? What's the consensus on that?
Get an accountant/tax expert. It's not even worth doing it yourself if you have anything even remotely complicated going on.
It does. If you look at a woman (or anything else) who isn't your wife, and you lust after her, you have committed the sin of Adultery. Jews need everything written down explicitly, but Christ knows they knew what He meant when He wrote the law. The Bible isn't a book for governing nations, but for saving souls.
The book doesn't make any demands of you. It is a book. The Author is another story.
That's why we have a Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. We don't have to wonder about these things.
Sexual immorality aka adultery is any sex outside of a marriage between a man and woman. In his sermon on the mount, Christ doubles down and says even looking with lustful intent is adultery.
The jew is justified through the covenant with Abraham and by complete adherence to the law of Moses. The Christian is justified by the new covenant forged with the blood of Christ. To be holy on our own one would have to completely adhere to the law of Moses and be free of the original sin of Adam, which is impossible (as exemplified by the Pharisees) . To be made holy by Christ we need only accept the grace of his sacrifice on the cross. The purpose of the law was to show us that we need grace, we can't do it alone.
What I've learned recently is that if one is getting a return, they fucked up. The government is taking far more money from you than you have to tolerate. Set up your life financially to either pay no tax or very little.
This is the second thing I've learned recently that intelligent adults do. Set up a side business as an LLC, do a little bit of business through it, be amazed at how much stuff you write off or not pay. If you're unsure, ask your accountant. I've heard of people who gross high 6 to low 7 figures annually and after write-offs and other autistic evaluations of the tax laws by their accountants, these people were able to legally report a net of $25k-ish.
Average argument with a true believer. You ask them to explain what the fuck they're saying about pedophilia and they go on about some other shit to try and explain it in a roundabout way. This is why nobody enjoys it when people argue about religion, there's no clear logical thread that one can follow, and there's no satisfying conclusion. Now you're saying looking at women in a lustful way is the same as raping children. What is wrong with you?
What's even the question here? Is lust the same as rape? The answer is "In Eternity, Yes". Sin is sin and you can't get to Heaven with any of it. Did you steal a Twix from the gas station? Hell. Did you Rape a child? Hell. The punishment is the same (for mortal sins), so the degrees of awfulness are determined here by courts, and worldly institutions for us to punish, or reward, at our discretion. I agree though that the millstone thing isn't explicitly about pedophilia, but it would seem to include it as a metric for "millstone neck-fear". A millstone would be so much better for the offender than what there is waiting for him if he persists in his sin. It would absolutely be better to have never been born, or tortured and murdered, or drowned with a millstone, than to cause a child, or an adult human being, to lose the faith (which I am assuming can also probably be done by raping them). This sounds pretty harsh (maybe not harsh enough for our tastes?), but the Lord is merely warning us just how bad things are when you die in sin, and how grave this sin is.
The question is whether or not the bible says to drown pedophiles, and the answer is presumably no because nobody quoted anything like that. Now you're saying something totally different, and that we can just take it as a matter of course because all sins are anathema to god. Why even make a fuss about it? If you're right then you're right, and clearly nobody is going to convince you otherwise because that would entail piercing your impenetrable armor of faith. The original point of this discussion is lost and retarded. Methinks the man of faith dost protest too much.
Okay yeah I'm definitely reading the discussion way wrong here.
