I don't believe the church, initially, had anything to say about it, but they could have refused to abide by it, and as Jesus told Peter, "Paid unto Caesar that (taxes) which was Caesars."
The amendment was to a bill in the 83rd Congress, H.R. 8300, which was enacted into law as the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. The amendment was proposed by Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas on July 2, 1954. The amendment was agreed to without any discussion or debate and was included in Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736).
Johnson shrewdly appeared on the Senate floor on July 2, 1954, and offered his amendment to a pending, massive, tax code overhaul bill. The bill was supposed to modernize the tax code. Records indicate an absence of committee hearings on the amendment.
The EU will raise up the antiChrist to become a world leader, will they not?
Because of the State religions in Europe, few people had actual individual conversions to Christ. In Germany, they became Lutheran at birth, in Switzerland, they became Calvinists (Presbyterians) at birth, and in England, they became Anglican, i.e., Church of England at birth.
All external, little or no inner faith or conviction...
We're under a tornado warning... I've got to go to the basement or broom closet...
BigMike wrote:
They did that in 54 when they got the church to sign an agreement with Mammon in the form of the Johnson amendment. We're a bit late.
All is not lost, though. America has a role to fulfil and God is moving against the one world government spirit here...bad on Europe, though. They have a role to fulfil too.