Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tl00155)

In message <34EBB9D8.F98F8FEC@sprynet.com>, Bart Lidofsky
<bartl@sprynet.com> writes
>In the
>United States, freedom of religion is taken very seriously; it is illegal for
>the government to even ask what someone's religion is. Members of the TS are
>not "registered" as to belonging to the Theosophical "religion", and Theosophy
>is not listed as a religion. It is a place where people can learn more about
>their OWN religions (as specified in the Mahatma letters).

I follow you only in part.  While theosophical ideas may help people
learn more about their own religions, how does that exempt your lodge
from tax?  Also, many people can be interested in theosophy from a
scientific or "truth" angle while holding no religious beliefs at all.  For
example, if the ideas of rounds and chains, time scales and worlds,
seem to have a *natural* and logical basis, there is no need for religion
to enter into the equation at all; eg., if reincarnation is a *fact* then
belief does not enter into it.

Puzzled of Britland
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