The issue here is really one of attachment toward organizations and a privileged status. Would your practice of your faith tradition be diminished by the organization’s requirement to pay taxes or if you could no longer deduct a contribution? Would you be any less of a Christian, Buddhist, Pagan, Muslim, Jew, Jain, and so on, if you or your institution couldn’t get a tax break?
If you focus on your special right not to have your faith taxed, or your right to a tax deduction, then you are focused on the form of faith and not the substance of it. Become detached from the “my faith and my deductions should not be taxed” delusion and you can then focus on the practice of your faith.
A hut or mansion
Is an artificial home.
Faith is inside you.
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