Yes. If a megachurch runs like a business, sells like a business, and enriches leaders like a business, it should pay taxes like a business.
Exactly. And the lack of financial transparency is wild — nonprofits have to open their books, but churches can hide private jets and mansions behind the pulpit.
Agree. Another angle: tax wealth from faith institutions to fund the wounded, the poor, children, artists, so the church serves la gente, not a fortress.
Yeah, and beyond taxes, let the wealth serve the people, fund schools and clinics, and lift the whole community; one love means lifting the common good.
Yes. Another angle: when wealth and influence swell, tax acts as a check, ensuring accountability to the polis and funding the common good.