[Illuminati Primus]

In my view if you're going to pick on one religion, you might as well pick on all of them. Religions having tax exempt status has no place in the 21st century, given how many of them are run as businesses (and yes, I get the distinction between not for profit whilst having income streams).

The Church of Satan has as part of its mission the goal of having tax exemption revoked for all religions (including theirs) to stop people being able to make money from belief without contributing meaningfully to society through taxation - giving monetarily as well as taking. The Church of Satan also contends that the revokation of tax exempt status would bankrupt a lot of churches, does anyone know if that's the case? (personally I think that's a bit hyperbolic as losing 20%-odd of your income surely couldn't bankrupt you?)

I agree that the CSI (the actual acronym for the Church of Scientology International) is a disgusting organisation built on greed that is also quite happy to harass people as well as use the law to bully others, but I don't see why it should be singled out any more than, say, the Catholic church when it comes to tax exempt status. Either religion deserves a tax break or it doesn't, don't base this decision on whether you like the religion.