Interfaith Group

it's a tax on church members, not the general population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax

Aside from that, though, are historic subsidies for "official" churches, like the Church of England, that aren't a special tax, but do come from general tax revenues.

Kinda goes along with their idea of including the tip in the restaurant bill, VAT... and other ways to "hide" stuff you might not want to pay if given a choice.

The reusing burial plots thing comes from the Dark Ages when good farmland was expensive and the churches owned some of the best. Graveyards were kept small and when you were suitably decomposed, your bones were dug up and sent to the "boneyard" for eternal storage. Things like disease and constant warring kept the corpse supply growing far faster than the burial plot supply.

BTW, when I lived in Germany in the late 60's there were "downtown" cemeteries that had been there for ages. They became very pleasant parks where we would to hang out for lunch.