Discussion: should churches keep fighting tax exemption, plus parking-sign jokes

• Is the original philosophical ground for church tax exemption still true today?
• Should churches stop fighting tax exemption and trade it for the government staying out of their business?

The hosts debate the philosophical ground for church tax exemption ('God's property,' the church as beyond the country), which one host argues the New Testament undercuts; the broad stance lands on: Christians should just let it go, pay the tax, or park farther away. A host predicts churches paying taxes is inevitable within about thirty years, driven by the appearance of government favoritism (the Johnson amendment problem) and fringe groups gaming the exemption, and suggests churches put it in their twenty-year plan. The bit closes with jokes about evading the tax by removing reserved-parking signs, proposing signs that don't technically reserve a spot.