Well, then just leave them untaxed, and let "the problem" take care of itself. My parents go to a typical < 100 member Protestant church, which is filled with n

Well, then just leave them untaxed, and let "the problem" take care of itself. My parents go to a typical < 100 member Protestant church, which is filled with nothing but gray hair, and they are the young ones. When the boomers are gone, I figure at least half of the churches in America will simply stop existing. I don't know what happens with all of that property. (The problem is that the only way to keep the lights on in these churches is to appeal to people in their 60's and 70's, but programs geared for that age bracket will turn away people in their 20's and 30's, and deprive the church of new people, new perspective, and new funding. These kinds of churches are slowly starving to death, victims of simple attrition.)