The obvious problem… If your a somewhat Orthodox Gnostic, then EVERYTHING material is a lie… therefore any institution trying to uphold the common good in persecuting liars would be actually upholding a insane system to begin with. I font see a obvious Gnostic fix to this, short of doing what Iran does (Gnostic Shia state) with its Martyrs Brigade.
But of course you don’t want THAT, but unless you show me that a inspector general is in a position to tell universally truth from falsehood, we are fucked as a society.
Reason why is “mission creep”. Its not quite the same as a slippery slop argument, but share some of the mechanics… mission creep deals with organizations that start out with a kind of task at hand… undoubtedly noble intentioned, self contained ideologically, and not intending to do mischief, and then start hitting operational friction, and realize to get from point A to B, C has to be dealt with, and in order to get C, D and E, and F then undermines A, C, and E, so one, till it has nothing with going from A to B, your in your X, Y, and Zs.
When this happens over multiple generations, the new generations have an excuse to bias, as they can claim they are following a tradition, and it worked in the past. The restraints are increasingly removed, as they are found to be a logical hindrance… which is correct, they were put there to stop this very activity.
You your proposing a system, yet admit in proposing it, you have yourself a theological outlook that typically treats everything as deceitful. You system makes sense to you, doesn’t seem related perhaps, but you haven’t explained to non-gnostics how this isn’t merely a means to subvert their faith in favor of yours, and how the more draconian possibilities (Iranian Gnostic Martyr Brigades) won’t pop up in the future. You also failed to show that the tax exemption isn’t beneficial to society, you merely showed your distrust of it, as a kind of pet peeve. Objectively, can you show the wisdom via statistics that atheist charities outperform religious charities? We are talking about handing out clothes, food cards for stores, help with heating during winter, senior activities, religious hospitals, international relief funds. Is your average pill popping atheist doing these kinds of things, or are they just looking out for themselves, and aiding in the social deterioration of society?
Furthermore, does attacking churches financially result in a lower crime rate? Or higher? Lower or higher education?
I want to point out that synagogues and catholic churches fall under these exemptions too, and the current members of the supreme court all belong to those two religions… not a Atheist amongst them. If we get rid of the churches, and secularise along Dutch and British lines, it seems like we would have to stupify our standards even more for appointing high court officials… not much stopped a brilliant atheist from rising to the court, just we had none apparently. These two religions encourage private study and intellectualism in their community. We undermine them, we enter into a even dumber era, as we gotta rely on the B Team to do the deep thinking, which is scary.
I’m hooking you up, as a Gnostic Christian, with a video by a Gnostic Shia Imam in London, only the beginning prayer is in a foreign language, the rest is in English… discovered he was a excellent public speaker, and remarkably open intelkectually despite his background, recommend watching it before you press my claims. He talks about how a Mosque Intellectually and Socially should ideally operate. In a pluralistic society, its good to remember multiple institutions, not just the government, are responsible with pursuing and maintaining the public good. No one forces you to go to Church, Temple, or Mosque… a few of them are rotten, but most manifestly good for society, and good for the individual. If your not aware of this, its because you haven’t been looking.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=QmAYB5axFt0
(Yes, it is in English, he just likes his foreign language prayers. )