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What exactly do you mean by mainstream? Evangelicals are the largest branch of Christianity in America. Hell white evangelicals alone are 13 percent of all Americans which is tied for the largest group of all.
https://www.prri.org/research/2020-census-of-american-religion/
Evangelical churches are not a single denomination but rather are a collection of unaffiliated churches.
The reality is the mega church that owns private jets is extremely uncommon.
I guess we'll just pretend the Vatican doesn't exist
The Vatican isn’t a mega church. Almost no one in Roman Catholicism is using a private jet.
Fine, here then: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_religious_organizations
I don’t know why you would think tha assessment has any credibility. You aren’t going to know what they have and frankly that isn’t relevant to taxation as we don’t tax wealth.
Would be nice if we had some kind of visibility into that, huh?
Why? We don’t assess anyone’s wealth because that’s insanely hard to do and is why every wealth tax that gets adopted eventually gets dropped.
What right do we have to know what a foreign nation, which the Vatican is, has?
Why would you want government workers to decide what is and is not acceptable for a Church? This is literally why the Congregationalists moved to Plymouth.
My point is that, in the US, other organizations that accept charity have to produce documentation detailing their spending. Religious organizations should be held to the same standard.
Their spending not their wealth yet you brought up wealth not spending.
Because those things are related. If you don't spend all your revenue, you end up accumulating wealth - that's profit. Which is directly in contradiction of being a nonprofit entity.
Profit is the revenue you have left after your expenses. Profits can become wealth but wealth is not profits.
If you can’t understand the above you should be asking questions more than making definitive statements.
The fact that you think this contradicts what I said really speaks to your reading ability.
Is the same as what I said
Now go be incorrectly pedantic somewhere else.
The wealth a church has can be derived from gifts which aren’t revenue and aren’t profits. For example when my local bishop died he gave the diocese his collection of first edition theological texts. Those books have value and this are wealth but zero profit is gained by having them because they aren’t being sold.
At no point was I “incorrectly pedantic” you seem to just not know the difference between wealth and profits which is odd considering the claims you have made about your academic background.
You're reading way too much into the order I phrased something in, all in an attempt to distract from you being wrong. You keep going further and further off track to distract people. It's not working. Stop it.
I would argue the same to you so perhaps we should stop here.
A bit disingenuous. They also didn't want to be persecuted while having batshit insane ideas and did horrible persecution, even unto death and torture of others, unless I'm misremembering. Churches should not be allowed to persecute nor encourage persecution of others. It would be nice if they actually taught the whole Bible in a sane and honest way and let God do the judging.
We don't, but civilized countries do.