You named a lot of deists and pretended they are/were christians... that aside, there is a difference between education and indoctrination... many well educated minds have held superstition. Socrates was no atheist, nor was Plato, great thinkers... Isaac Newton was a religious fanatic, he spent...
It is common practice actually... I would make him take it out of your check for your hourly and not pay it out of your cash tips that night, get a paper trail. tell him if he wants you to pay for it and he thinks its legal for him to do that, then you want a reciept... then you will have all...