What percent of real estate in the USA is owned by churches? Please cite your source.?
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I don't know the exact amount but it is enormous and all in prime locations.
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It is a very small percentage. Even if you are just considering America(which, I'm guessing is a much higher concentration than any other nation) & the parking space here, it probably is only around .0075%. Factoring in roads & other paved surfaces it still is well below .1%, I would guess.
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Its a percentage of the sale amount or the rental amount. Usually about 5% in the US.
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100% financing on an investment property?  Sounds fishy to me.  Is this some condemned building or one that was under seawater from the last hurricane?  That area was hit hard, are you an out of state investor?  Be careful.
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8.125%\n\nIt's on page 51 of the document listed below.
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Churches get tax exempt status in the US due to the separation of church and state. Ulitimately, churches are entities unto themselves, and are not regulated by the government. \n\nHowever, there are certain criteria which churches must meet. They must not engage in profitable exercises (like run a business), they cannot endorse political candidates or make political contributions, and I think they need to serve the community in some fashion. \n\nNow, not all church's are fancy, nor are all pastors rich. What we're seeing now in the US is an emergence of these megachurches. Here's where you see pastor's getting rich. Or, you will have long standing organized religions that are sitting on mountains of loot. They turn around and put the loot back into their churches.  \n\nSomething to me seems to be lost in a megachurch. It seems the emphasis is to deliver a product, not to help people gain wisdom and spiritual insight.  It's kind of like Jesus(tm), Inc. But, that's my opinion. \n\nAgain, churches get to be tax free due to the freedom of religion clause in the first amendment, and they must be non-profit, non-partisan, and a-political.\n\nAs long as church and state are separate, I have no qualms about churches being tax free. If they start getting political and endorsing candidates, or if they start selling church merchandise, then I think they should be regulated.
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1.5% to 3% of the estate.\n\nhttp://www.jpenhaligenlaw.com/info02.html
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82% of the worlds wealth in money.\nhttp://weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=135\nhttp://weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=140\nhttp://www.philipdru.com/griffin3_stream.html
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This is EXACTLY what organized religion is about today.  Money, money, money.  How many of these dudes with 4000 square foot houses would be preaching if there was no money involved and it was just about the bible and god?  Does "the word" someone get passed BETTER because he's pulling in $125K a year?  No, it doesn't.  \n\nAnd people continue to fall for it, giving, giving, giving and giving some more "in the name of" whomever.  Give me a break.  I was forced to sit and listen to a BS sermon about "giving 10% of your earnings to the church, if you don't then these "bad things" are going to happen.  C'MON!  BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO EVERYONE.  They would have happened anyway!  Then the people leave and inevitably something bad will happen to them...they might get in a wreck, lose something important or worse, then think, "If I had given the church that money, this wouldn't have happened."  What a farce.  And people buy into it, hook, line and sinker.
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Yes.  Real property does not require the owner to be living in the USA.  Look around, there are many buildings owned by foreign corporations.
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It sounds like your guest speaker was expressing his own opinion; or maybe he was referring to the growth of the pornography industry over the past couple of decades. It's a multi-billion-dollar-per-year industry and that means A LOT of people are buying the stuff. And it stands to reason that if a lot of people are buying it, then at least some of them must be churchgoers.  But think about it: These simple facts, recited in a sermon, might get your senior pastor into a lot of trouble with his congregation; could even cost him his job.  \n\nNow are you really surprised that he's never mentioned it?
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Ok, everyone says Florida, But have you been to the North Carolina beaches lately?  House that were selling for 150K - 200K 10 years ago are in the millions now with new construction going up every day!
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yes its happening in US, i saw inthe news a certain church that believes bin polygamy, well the owner of the church is now a fugitive,but try check in web, in america everything is possible.
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Probably. Theres lots of Self acclaimed "christians" in the world so i bet . 82 percent of Americans now describe themselves as Christian. So im betting that half or more in strip clubs are christians
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I don't think separation of church and state said anything about being tax free. If a minister teaches bible, that's one thing, but pastor's like Rod Parsley, who for years has flaunted his political view's, and allows candidates to speak from his pulpit, should lose his tax exempt status forthwith. Not to mention he's a millionaire many times over.
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about 6.5 Billion... I don't know the actual percentages but over half follow Islam... the next largest would be Catholicism followed closely by Christianity.
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That's a good question.  I couldn't find the answer online.  My advice is to either visit another church and ask them or visit a nearby government building (state capitol, city hall...) and ask them.  Somebody should know.