Summarize The Pros And Cons Of Tax Exemptions For Churches

I choose the topic of tax exemptions for churches. In summarizing the position of pros for tax exemptions for the church, I researched and surmised that today’s church has lost sight of the reason for its very existence under the government's tax free gratuity. The church was established as a resource to the community in which charitable services could be delivered to the citizens of the community that the government would not have to accommodate. The first tax exemption of a church, granted as a favor from one prominent person to a prominent establishment, set precedence for tax exemptions to charitable organizations that has continued into the 21st century. Creditable charitable organizations should continue to receive tax deductions

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30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
New King James Version

Basic freedoms, rights and privileges are lost by many because of the bad behaviors and actions of the few. In the case of tax exemption for the church, it is not the law of the land to abate the responsibility of paying taxes for religious and charitable organizations. The constitution has been traditionally misinterpreted for generations to be the separation of church and state based on the religious beliefs of a few prominent people. Each year our country continues to raise the taxes on the majority of its citizens to compensate for the loss of revenue generated by mega churches with flamboyant leaders and impoverished members. The church is not required to reveal the amount of money it receives from the government or from its parishioners, but the naked eye can see clearly the extravagant lifestyles of their leaders in the form of multimillion dollar homes, private airplanes, television broadcasts and radio broadcasts. The economic divide between the leaders and the members of the mega churches is too great. It was too great in the beginning with the first favor and it remains too great today. The fact that satanic churches and mock religious establishments receive the same tax free exemptions without any requirement of its validity provides credence to the fact that it is time to