"In recent years, a church-run fitness center with a tanning bed and video arcade in Minnesota, a biblical theme park in Florida, a ministry’s 1,800-acre training retreat and conference center in Michigan, religious broadcasters’ transmission towers in Washington State, and housing for teachers at church-run schools in Alaska have all been granted tax breaks by local officials — or, when they balked, by the courts or state legislators."
As Exemptions Grow, Religion Outweighs Regulation
By DIANA B. HENRIQUES
New York Times
October 8, 2006
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I am going to start a church.
I am leary of Islam and Christianity.
I am also leary of any church that is based on drugs such as peyote, mescaline, marijuana, LSD etc.
I will start a church called The United Church of Migraines since so many people are afflicted with these painful headaches.
My church would still be beholden to God.
Oh Mighty Supreme Being, Creator of the Universe, we pray to you to relieve our Migraines.
The building for my church will be shaped like a brain.
This big brain will be the symbol of The United Church of Migraines.
I will put a pulsating red light in the center.
Migraine-suffering brothers and sisters will find salvation and relief inside The United Church of Migraines.
With its tax-free revenue, my church will build a recreation center equipped with a fitness center, a bowling alley, video arcade and massage-pizza parlor.
Donations are welcome...big and small.
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