The Patrick Madrid Show: May 18, 2022 - Hour 2
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
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🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
- In Germany, you have to identify what religion you affiliate with, and the government disperses that money to the different churches. Patrick hypothesizes this is one of the reasons why we are hearing about a schism there.
- Maria - The German Bishops have a lot of control on who gets ordained more so than other places in the world, which I think is problematic.
- Kim – Is it possible that the German Church is trying to bring more people back in the faith by doing what they are doing?
- Patrick recommends “Annulments in the Catholic Church: Straight Answers to Tough Questions
- Kathy - I have been doing home house visits to the elderly for 30 years and every person has said that they wanted more kids. Every one.
- Brian – Can the church choir re-write the psalms?
- Margaret - As a Catholic, can I euthanize an elderly animal?
- Adam 11-Years-Old - What were we before we were created?
- Maria - I was told I could not receive confession because I am married outside the church.
- Joanne - I don't oppose euthanizing animals, but I disagree that animals aren't aware of God? How would you address in the bible the story of the Donkey?
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| 0:00.0 | Stop being disobedient to the Almighty, period. |
| 0:09.3 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, encouragement for your day. |
| 0:15.0 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:19.3 | Welcome back. |
| 0:20.4 | Okay, so I hope you were tantalized into holding over the break |
| 0:25.0 | because i wasn't i just didn't have enough time to pose my hypothetical question about the tax |
| 0:30.5 | situation based on religion in germany and if you're saying what i didn't hear any of that well you're |
| 0:35.8 | just tuning in so let me just give you some context here. |
| 0:39.0 | Unlike the United States, unlike much of the rest of the world, |
| 0:43.9 | off Deutschland, in Germany, you have to pay a religion tax. You have to identify what religion you affiliate with, Catholic, Lutheran, |
| 0:56.9 | etc. And you have to pay taxes. And you pay taxes to the government that then disburses those |
| 1:05.7 | tax, in this case, euros. I was going to say they disbursed your tax dollars, |
| 1:11.6 | but they don't use dollars. |
| 1:13.2 | So they disbursed your tax euros |
| 1:15.5 | to the different churches. |
| 1:17.6 | And not like down to the parish level, |
| 1:19.1 | but say like the bishops conference |
| 1:20.8 | of the Catholic Church in Germany, |
| 1:22.8 | they get a big old truckload of money |
| 1:26.8 | every time the taxes are dispersed. |
| 1:29.7 | So this is just how they do it. |
| 1:31.7 | And you can go onto the government website and you can figure out. |
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