The tax status of churches is justified on the fiction that promoting religion is somehow - in and of itself a 'charitable purpose'...feeding the hungry isn't a requirement, nor is housing the homeless or giving shoes to poor kids - all you have to do is promote religion (the real reason has to do with the wartime collusion between the Church and William of Normandy, but you have to dig a little to find it).
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