I firmly believe it is. Personally, all so called churches, etc. should be taxed.

Religion is a business. They run on a donation/tithe system along with products they sell with a percentage going to the home church (Head office). As with any other business, there are promotion opportunities to higher positions with added benefits, power, and responsibilities.

They are selling a lifestyle that includes hope and comfort in exchange for total obedience and loyalty which has a placebo effect on their congregation.

A definition of the Placebo Effect:
A beneficial effect, produced by a placebo drug or treatment, that cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must, therefore, be due to the patient's/individual's belief in that treatment/doctrine.

They definitely should be taxed as a business.

Yes. And, now evangelicals are using their untaxed income and wealth to influence politics to give them even more power.

Of course it is. All supposed non profits are run like businesses because they have paid employees

It is a business that sells a product and promotes political ideas. The product is of dubious value, but some buyers seem quite satisfied witnessed by the fact that so many of them keep going back to the store for more. The political ideas are subversive and dangerous for the health of any nation where these businesses exist. In some places monopolies are tolerated and in a few even encouraged.

At the least they should bear an equal tax burden to any other business. Ideally, they should be eliminated and the sheeple retrained into the human endeavor to make the world a better place for rational thought and advancement.

IMO - yes.

When I was a Christian I was active in the church and was a member of the finance committee. The church was very much run as a business with particular attention paid to income and management of the church's financial resources. There was always prayer at the meetings but pragmatism prevailed and we carefully managed every penny. The income was used first for expenses and then to expand activities.

Of course, and it should be taxed the same as any other business.

Yes.