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I'm fine with Sanitarium being a charity. Academics and Redditors just hate anything to do with Christianity and want to persecute Christians at every opportunity. Back to the original topic though, Sanitarium made a mistake here. I've thought about buying cereals from The Warehouse but the range is extremely limited, Sanitarium should definitely keep selling WeetBix to The Warehouse, I'm sure many families benefit from it.
What a stupid take.
It has nothing to do with their religion, and everything to do with running a for-profit organization under the guise of 'charity'. If the church they donate profits to does charitable works, they are a charity. ~~Sanitarium benefits from tax-free status without actually doing anything to benefit society.~~ Dave's post above shows this isn't correct. They pay no tax because they donate all their profit.
Sanitarium are not a charity. I've explained a bit more in another reply here.
In my view, there is nothing wrong with a church having charitable status. However, this status should be based on their charity, not based on them simply being a church.
Hell, we could apply the marae criteria to churches:
And I'd add a charity should not be allowed to donate to political parties or encourage their members to. A charity should be non-political.
Yeah I was wrong, I've edited my reply.
I agree with your suggestion btw. Charities should do charitable works. Being a church in on in itself a charitable works. We really need to move past religion as the most important thing.