(Christian News Network) One of the nation’s most conspicuous professing atheist groups has filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) after its charity Nonbelief Relief lost its tax-exempt status for not filing form 990 for three consecutive years. The organization contends that the government wrongly shows preferential treatment to churches in automatically exempting them from the requirement, but punishing other non-profits by enforcing the mandate to file the annual informational form. “The information return
exemption given to churches and other religious organizations constitutes discrimination on the basis of religion in violation of the Establishment Clause,” reads the lawsuit filed by the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). “[T]he revocation of plaintiff’s tax-exempt status violated the Establishment Clause, as well as the Equal Protection rights of the plaintiff.” FFRF founded its non-profit organization Nonbelief Relief in 2015 to provide financial donations to various charitable groups and “individuals targeted for nonbelief, secular activism, or blasphemy.” READ MORE