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One can only hope this also spells the end for his political career in its entirety, but I don't trust we'll be that lucky.

Unfortunately, no system is perfect; and there will always be people like Joel Osteen around to take advantage of the imperfections. The answer is not to tear down the system and start over from scratch though, but rather to find the loopholes they're exploiting, and figure out how to close them.

Your tax burden should be lighter, and the rich should be paying more. I don't mean that their taxes should be raised, but something should be done about all the loopholes they exploit to avoid paying any taxes at all. As for churches, they don't pay taxes for the same reason any other...

Which itself had roots in Judaism, who in turn could trace their roots back to the religious traditions of ancient Mesopotamia. I'm sorry, but the "roots" are irrelevant.

Unfortunately when you argue that, those who think morality only comes from religion start accusing you of being a "moral relativist"; basically invoking the "guilt by association" fallacy to justify why you're wrong, and they're right.