Jubal sighed. "My dear, religion is practically a null area under the law.  A church can do anything any other human organization can do and has no restrictions.  It pays no taxes, need not publish records, is effectively immune to search, inspection, or control - and a church is anything that calls itself a church.  Attempts have been made to distinguish between 'real' religions entitled to these immunities and 'cults.' This can't be done, short of establishing a state religion... which is a cure worse than the disease.  In any case, we haven't done it, and both under what's left of the old United States Constitution and under the Treaty of Federation, all churches are equal and equally immune - especially if they swing a big bloc of votes.  If Mike is converted to Fosterism... and makes a will in favor of his church... and then 'goes to heaven' some sunrise, it will all be, to put it in the correct tautology, 'as legal as church on Sunday.'"