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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
The US Government, for one. Being a religion has a wide variety of extremely tangible tax benefits, and they fairly narrowly define what is and isn't a religion for that purpose. Church of Scientology falls outside of the strict interpretation of those requirements, but they have enough lobbying money to keep themselves 'religified' so to speak, as it's probably worth millions of dollars to them to not have to pay taxes.
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I'm not familiar with the US tax laws regarding what can be considered a church and what can not. But does their standing with the tax man change their status as a church?
And lot's of churches have used power and money for political sway, yes?