You’re free to set up a tax free secular literary, scientific, or educational organization that functions exactly like a church with a meeting hall, performance

You’re free to set up a tax free secular literary, scientific, or educational organization that functions exactly like a church with a meeting hall, performance venue, lectures discussing mark Twain, classes on bicycle repair, cheese making, model railroading etc… Here is a list of the purposes for which you can setup a 501(c)(3) organization. “charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition, and preventing cruelty to children or animals” If you remove religious for some reason, churches will just operate as educational or literary organizations, so you’d need to remove those as well.