The USA has a very strict secular way about it though. Our
separation of church/state is pretty clearly laid out. But
taxation and freedom of religion is different in different
countries. Not every - in fact MOST countries in the world - are
NOT unbiased secular governments. They'd look at the rotating
cube religion, call it cult or business and it wouldn't get tax
exempt. The freedom-of-religion is a very USA thing that we take
for granted but it's not so in a lot of places. I'd say more
countries are like the town I grew up in: There were two
churches: Catholic or Methodist. You were either Catholic or
Methodist. If you were something else, you had to go out of town
for it. You could be anything else, but you don't get special
favors for it like the big boys do, and I think that's how a lot
of countries are.
