Fully 100% American vs divided allegiance

Most organizations crave 501(c)3 status because it exempts them from corporate income taxes and allows donors to deduct gifts from their taxable incomes.But 501(c)3 organizations, like all organizations with employees, must make FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) contributions, including Medicare and Social Security, and must withhold federal income taxes from their employees' paychecks.To unregistered churches, obeying these laws "would be a sin under the religious convictions of the Church respecting the sovereignty of the Lordship of Jesus Christ as the head of the Church in all things."But that's not all. They say churches should disengage from government in most every other way. They should not allow fire or building inspections or heed zoning laws. They should not permit their pastors or teachers to receive any sort of license. Newborns should not be issued birth certificates, and weddings should not involve marriage licenses.Churches may use the federal mail system, but should not use nonprofit mailing permits or even zip codes.IBT claimed that the people who were paid to work in the office and sweep the floors were not employees, but rather "ministers" who were paid "cash love gifts only." (Ministers, who are considered self-employed, are exempt from FICA taxes.) IBT also alleged that it was not a legal corporation or entity.The last such corporation supposedly ended in 1989 with the dissolution of Not A Church, Incorporated, which had been established to handle IBT's legal affairs. Finally, the church argued, section 501(c)3 is unconstitutional, a violation of the First Amendment guarantee that Congress will make no law abridging the free exercise of religion.IBT's arguments, the federal judge in IBT's tax case ruled in the end, were "sadly mistaken."

There is no mention of supporting religion as long as it is nonsectarian.

Jefferson owned slaves, and did not press for the rejection of slavery, despite being an opponent of slavery and wrote that it was a goal to remove it from the US.

You think the Constitution is secular in the sense the government is forbidden to favor religion in general

I mean you still think the relgious and non-profit tax law exemptions are UnConstitutional.

The government is obligated to be non-sectarian, not secular in the sense you claim.

The government is required to be neutral to religion and that makes it de facto secular in the way that the word is defined and used by most people.

But if atheists set up an organization simply to enjoy the congeniality of shared belief in each other's company, and do bake-sales, paid-admission dinners, and gambling/lotteries to support their socializing, I think they'd have to pay property, sales, and income taxes, and would find little local tolerance for "gray" legal areas like bingo.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT! As you read the below article keep this fact in mind. According to the tax appraiser's office for Pinellas County, Florida the dollar amount of exempt real estate held by religions in Pinellas county alone is:$583,581,970.00!!!

Intriguingly, it also shows that congressional chaplains were not as acceptable as is made out to be by some people.

James Madison, Detached Memoranda, believed to have been written circa 1817.
"The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles: The tenets of the chaplains elected [by the majority] shut the door of worship against the members whose creeds and consciences forbid a participation in that of the majority. To say nothing of other sects, this is the case with that of Roman Catholics and Quakers who have always had members in one or both of the Legislative branches. Could a Catholic clergyman ever hope to be appointed a Chaplain? To say that his religious principles are obnoxious or that his sect is small, is to lift the evil at once and exhibit in its naked deformity the doctrine that religious truth is to be tested by numbers. or that the major sects have a right to govern the minor."

Madison's most famous statement on behalf of religious liberty was his Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, which he wrote to oppose a bill that would have authorized tax support for Christian ministers in the state of Virginia.

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects? that the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment, may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever?

That's interesting because the biggest examples of this is the civil rights movement where ministers used the pulpit, their congregations, church buses, etc,...to lobby for change. I don't think it was bad thing even though it was injection of religion into politics.

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson warned residents of a rural Pennsylvania town Thursday that disaster may strike there because they "voted God out of your city" ...Robertson made headlines this summer when he called on his daily show for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.In October 2003, he suggested that the State Department be blown up with a nuclear device. He has also said that feminism encourages women to "kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."