ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the principle of Church funding that is implicitly accepted in most European countries, very often without much overt discussion. Unlike the United States of America, most European countries have a system of organizing, in various ways, public funding for religion. Separation of Church and State is invoked as an argument against Church funding. Other arguments against Church funding include the idea that everybody should pay for their own hobbies, for the survival of sects or other groups he or she wants to be part of. Church funding cannot find its rationale as a tool achieving the greatest happiness of the greatest number. Religion should not be funded as an element potentially leading to happiness. This contribution is not the right place to analyse this current phenomenon in depth. People are not in search of an alternative to churches as institutions.
