Almost any group is recognized as ‘an official religion in the United States’. It’s NOT an endorsement - it’s a reflection of our founding father’s belief in ‘freedom of religion’...
Agreed, but it does concern me because eventually there will be so many tax exempt “religions” out there who knows what may happen to the status for churches of traditional religions?
Not so, took Bill Clinton to grant that status to Scientogy. Tax benefits come with it, even for a pro-profit prophet like L Ron MuthaHubbard with copywritten texts about the origins of man being from aliens.
If paganism was, ahem, recgnized, then why did the pagans have to sue the V.A., to have their symbol on a headstone?