You wrote: "...get tax exemption... ...That means they have taken away 10% of my worship of God. I have not been free to worship 10 dollars worth of worship. They have, therefore, made a law that prevents me from freely worshipping God."
Reply: You seem to offer the odd view that your freely worshipping requires a tax deduction! I recall Jesus saying something similar about the Pharisees. A support to the state--in the case of tax exemptions, a hidden support that costs believers and non-believers. However you like to cast it, it is a hidden support of the state for all churches. $10 dollars worth of worship, as you put it.
Measuring worship in dollars is surely one of the strangest views I have ever read.
As for Christianity, Jesus' final instructions: "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, baptising them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you."
Does that sound limited to sermons in fancy buildings? (Hint: It doesn't.)
No one is granting me any tax exemption. To tax my worship would be to violate the free exercise of my religion. Why not just tax me for every 100 words I speak when in church....it would be the same thing -- an infringement on my free exercise of my faith. It is not possible for the state to take some of my worship money without taking that which has been dedicated to the worship of my God.
No government or tax entity is doing me any special favors by not taxing me....free worship is a right. And all rights are granted by the Creator, who has endowed me with certain unalienable rights.
Why shouldn't they just enter the church building and take every 10th candlestick or every 10th pew?
I'd think it was clear that if the government taxed YOU to support religion that you'd see the injustice in it. So why would it be right that they should tax MY OFFERING TO GOD to help support them?
(And wouldn't that put the government in the peculiar position of wanting to encourage YOU to go to church so they could get another piece of your money that you drop in the plate, the same way that they like to encourage business because they get a piece of that action. I can see it now: the "Government Leading Indicator of Church Offerings.")