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Henry von Blumenthal @PaulinusOfTrier - Very few people outside Germany understand the pivotal role played by the Church Tax in Germany.
In Germany if you are a registered Catholic (basically meaning baptised as such) you are obliged by law to pay a tax surcharge to the Church. This is calculated as about 8 percent of whatever tax you pay to the government.
Now, this has nothing to do with whether you go to church or accept its teachings. 94 percent of those affected are not regular churchgoers, and a high proportion are non religious or even sometimes against religion. The only reason why they remain on the list is that it’s an annoying procedure and they can’t be bothered.
The consequence is that the bishops do whatever it takes not to antagonise these paying non believers in case they de-list themselves in retaliation.
He who pays the piper calls the tune: in this case the piper is the German bishops, the tune is the German Synodal Way and the payers are the 94 percent of Catholics with no interest in doctrine but strong views on worldly concerns.
https://x.com/PaulinusOfTrier/status/2026966013888106700
HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse Video: - .@SecKennedy: “I started talking about [chronic disease] in 2005 and I got censored because I was talking about big industries…I prayed every day for 19 years that God would put me in a place where I could end this chronic disease epidemic…In August of 2024, God sent me Donald Trump.”
https://x.com/HHSResponse/status/2027191685948584189
HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse - Video: .@SecKennedyon becoming @HHSGov secretary: “I recognized…it would give me actual, real power to make these changes…For the last year @POTUS has let me go up against Big Pharma and Big Food and Big Insurance and Big Hospitals and all of these other untouchables.”
https://x.com/HHSResponse/status/2027193400697459067
HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse - Video: .@SecKennedy: “We’re fixing the baby formula…We’re testing it for ingredients but we’re also testing it for the ingredients that are not listed; for PFAS, for pesticides, for heavy metals.”
https://x.com/HHSResponse/status/2027203287657713969
HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse - Video: .@SecKennedy: “We’re going to announce an agreement by the major medical schools to start teaching nutrition in the schools.”
https://x.com/HHSResponse/status/2027205010128343137
HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse - Video: .@SecKennedy: “What we need to do in our agency, what we’re talking about is getting people…to go out and just start teaching people how to cook.”
https://x.com/HHSResponse/status/2027200385945948214
HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse - Video: .@SecKennedy: “We came up with the Food Pyramid which basically you can summarize in those three words: Eat Real Food. It is going to change the food culture in this country.”
https://x.com/HHSResponse/status/2027196579652808827
HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse - Video: .@SecKennedy: “I started talking about [chronic disease] in 2005 and I got censored because I was talking about big industries…I prayed every day for 19 years that God would put me in a place where I could end this chronic disease epidemic…In August of 2024, God sent me Donald Trump.”
https://x.com/HHSResponse/status/2027191685948584189
HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse - Video: .@SecKennedy at “Eat Real Food” rally in Austin, TX: “Something is happening to our kids…To me it was existential. The most important role that a nation has is protecting its children, and here we were just watching these generations of children be damaged and no one was even talking about it.”
https://x.com/HHSResponse/status/2027188515012800920
HHS Rapid Response @HHSResponse - Video: What we need in a surgeon general.
https://x.com/HHSResponse/status/2027126207360172073
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