Author Topic: Hey Widewing (Read 261 times)

J_A_B · « **on:** October 23, 2004, 06:23:45 PM »

What church do you go to? In that gun thread, you said church asks for 10% of after-tax income. That sounds awfully strange to me. When I went to church, 2% was considered "normal" and friends who still go still give about that amount.

J_A_B

JB73 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 23, 2004, 06:28:19 PM »

tithe, thats the only "official" number given out by any church i have gone to

some churches have gotten more "progressive" possibly and changed that number though.

J_A_B · « **Reply #2 on:** October 23, 2004, 06:34:47 PM »

Are you protestant or Catholic? Thinking it over, I bet that makes a big difference. I was Catholic.

J_A_B

JB73 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 23, 2004, 06:40:35 PM »

Lutheran

though growing up with catholic and protestant friends, knowing much of their stuff talking about sunday school and stuff.

Widewing · « **Reply #4 on:** October 23, 2004, 06:50:36 PM »

I was born into a Catholic family. Switched to Baptist many years later. Also attended AoG, CoG and a few congregational churches.

Most Protestant churches urge tithing, which is 10%. Naturally, they remind you that this should be after taxes.

You know, "render unto God what is God's and render unto Caesar what is Caesar's."

What they usually forget is that God's money should be going to God's work, not building monsterous buildings with ornate trappings and expensive extras like $20,000 dollar grand pianos and replacing 15,000 square feet of carpeting every three years.

About 15 years ago I attended a board meeting of a very large, very rich non-demominational church (where I was a member) and darn near initiated a fist-fight when I suggested they refinish and tune the old piano and use the money saved to help some young widows get their mortgages paid up to date before they lost their houses to foreclosure.

You see, in much of the christian world, God's money is used for man's work. God can wait in line with his hand out like the rest.....

God's work includes tending to the sick and infirmed. Feeding the poor and elderly. Making sure the children have warm clothes (and not used garbage no one else wants anymore) and full bellies.

If the church was doing its job as God intended, there would be no need for welfare in this country. If the church was doing its job, we'd have a lot less government intrusion in our lives.

My regards,

Widewing

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #5 on:** October 23, 2004, 09:15:47 PM »

Amen.

And the 10%? That's mostly universal, the bible refers to it as a tithe.

Before you ask, I was a member of the Church of Christ.

Raubvogel · « **Reply #6 on:** October 23, 2004, 09:27:16 PM »

I belong to the Church of Raub. I can worship whatever I feel like, when I feel like, for free.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 23, 2004, 10:50:32 PM »

Jesus christ! They actually ask you for 10% of your income?

J_A_B · « **Reply #8 on:** October 23, 2004, 10:59:45 PM »

Yeah, that's about the initial reaction I had when I first read WW's post in that other thread.

Thinking it over, I bet a lot of that money is supporting preachers' families. Catholic priests are married to the church more or less, hence require less money for support. Both systems have their pros and cons.

J_A_B

Lizking · « **Reply #9 on:** October 23, 2004, 11:10:34 PM »

Organized religion is a pig suckling on the tit of fear.

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #10 on:** October 24, 2004, 09:27:23 AM »

Actually, organized religion has been corrupted by the same people who corrupt everything else. The rest of us have allowed, and continue to allow, those scumbags to do it.