In fairness if the gov gave us tax free status we would probably be too drunk to know it had and if we did realise we would just invest the money on strippers and pirate ships..........ok where do i sign?
There is probably sound reasoning for religious organisations to be contributing more tax on some of its activities, but in the general point "should religions pay tax" You need to make a choice, do you want separation of church and state and people to be free to believe in and exercise their...
Isnt there some sort of Religious Tax on income in Austria (maybe Germany too) . Seems like a fair way of getting money out of people and separates real religious people from the pretend types.