The US government passes up a lot of tax revenue in making houses of worship exempt from paying property tax. Could you imagine how many churches, synagogues and mosques would close down if they all had to pay property taxes? Houses of worship do nobody any good knowing that a lot of people are struggling. This is an example of how a lot of people who are well-to-do will abuse the law to avoid paying their fair share.
The non-profit status was not created to be used this way. Anyone can consider this when you hear of any religious organizations publicized as doing charitable work. This is not even about freedom of religion, for most people really don’t care about freedom of religion, much as they say they do.
Most people who attend religious services in these organizations don’t think about the fact that they have to pay tremendous amounts of property tax, yet the religious institution they partake in pays none. Even worse is that many people would put religion before the care of their health or their own children. Theism has a tendency to not only lose sense of priorities, but also reality. Religion would be so much better and not have such a bad rep if only it were a recreational choice rather than a constitution right to enforce for social manipulation and public control.
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