The Religion Business

Radio Free Mormon

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Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 March 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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How do U.S. churches take advantage of tax exemptions, and should this be allowed? These and other issues are How do U.S. churches take advantage of tax exemptions, and should this be allowed? These and other issues are investigated by filmmaker Nathan Apffel in his upcoming documentary series, “The Religion Business.” And why does Nathan… Read More »The Religion Business

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0:00.0	wondered how it is that some churches in the U.S. seem to get inordinately wealthy, and not only
0:07.8	churches, but pastors themselves. Have you ever wondered if maybe the laws granting religion's
0:14.5	tax exemptions should be changed in this regard? Have you ever thought you could go to jail for trying to get to the
0:21.5	bottom of these questions? Well, that's exactly what happened to one of our guests. Join us
0:26.7	tonight for what promises to be a fascinating discussion here on Mormonism Live. All right. All right.
0:59.5	Good evening, everybody.
1:02.3	Good evening to you, too, Mr. Real.
1:04.2	Good evening, Mr. Radio Free Mormon. How are you?
1:07.2	I'm fine. Thank you. I'm really excited about tonight show.
1:09.7	We have not one guest, but two guests tonight.
1:12.1	And I'm going to be introducing them here in just a second. They're both in the green room waiting to come on.
1:17.9	But first, do you have an announcement for us? Yeah, I just wanted to show folks something really quick.
1:25.7	This Saturday, you probably have already heard this. This is a project
1:29.2	I've been working on for some time. This took about 100 hours to put together. I don't know if
1:33.0	it'll be great, but I think it's at least going to be good. And I'm really excited about the topic.
1:37.4	It will be a one-hour examination of religion generally, which I think actually goes nicely with
1:42.6	the topic tonight, religion generally,
1:44.9	and will essentially give the viewer the ability to see their own religion in the context of all
1:51.7	kinds of other religions and to sort of sense what it is that these religions worldwide do
1:58.2	in order to get you to gravitate towards belief
2:03.4	even if the claims of that religion are absurd.
2:07.1	And so during the show tonight,
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