Mark 12:15-17
..But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. “Why are you trying to trap me?” he asked. “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” 16 They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?”
“Caesar’s,” they replied.
17 Then Jesus said to them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”
NIV
No 501c3 exemption required.
So why are you so obsessed over this little matter that you completely overlook the fact that genuine Christian love can overcome all such hurdles of sin? If the love is weak... you don’t throw vinegar in their faces to try to make it stronger.
Bub... Satan can’t drive off Satan. If you looked in the mirror of love, then you would see the hate that has overtaken your spirit and driven it into a mad, impotent frenzy over something that isn’t even a danger today! (America is going to be overrun by libertines, not by some hypothetical government-worshiping Christianesque hicks.)
And if you really care that the witness of the American church is being diluted by accepting the exemptions granted in modern America to any and all charitable and religious organizations, how about you first come up yourself even to the level of love that these churches still have? Believe it or not they are not committing the unforgivable sin. You are packing lots of Satanic rage and hate — not Christian love — and trying to drive out flaws with that. It’ll never work, not in a whole eternity. That was never God’s plan. God’s plan is to heal sin with love, if the recipient will be willing to accept it. He never got pleasure out of damning anyone.
“I bear [you] witness that [you] have a zeal for God — but not according to knowledge.”
So you’re saying churchs shouldn’t pay any taxes, exemption or not?