Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?

[Thumpalumpacus]

If we the people give our government the power to tax churches we are giving our government the power to obstruct their establishment. The power to tax churches is the power to make them so prohibitively expensive that people will not be able to readily come together, pool their resources, and exercise religion. The power to tax churches is the power to destroy them and I frankly do not want our government to have that much power. I would rather see a few rich televangelist than the government have this ability to destroy churches.

Do you have a problem with the government having the power to destroy individuals with the power to tax? Have you raised your voice against the income tax? Or property taxes? Why does an organization need protection while an individual doesn't?

And more to the point, why can't this god-thingy take care of his own? Why do they need secular support? Aren't the believers willing enough to see that their churches are supported? If believers cannot be bothered to support their own churches, why should they get tax exemptions which end up foisting more taxes upon nonbelievers? Corporations, who presumably don't reside under God's ægis, get along just fine without special exemptions, for the most part. I wonder how they manage that?

Oh, yeah, sound financial management.

If believers wish to get together and worship, no taxation will stop that.