Simplify the following text for a Grade 11 native English-speaking person.
Original: From 1780 Massachusetts had a system which required every man to belong to a church , and permitted each church to tax its members , but forbade any law requiring that it be of any particular denomination .
Simplified: From 1780 Massachusetts had a system which required every man to belong to a church , and permitted each church to tax its members , and did not require that it be a Congregational church .