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To your aside, maybe seculars could step up their charitable activities? Not sure who your quarrel is with
by georgeburdell 7y ago
To your aside, maybe seculars could step up their charitable activities? Not sure who your quarrel is with
- FireBeyond 7y agoBy and large, religious giving is only (relatively) larger when you include the entirety of religious giving, which can include everything from soup kitchens to "erecting the world's biggest cross, because the next town has the world's now second biggest cross" to helicopters for your pastors to ferry between churches "because traffic". "Elevation Church does post some financial records on its website, reporting that the church took in $33.5 million in offerings last year and gave away about $3.8 million in outreach, spent $9 million on personnel and reported $13.9 million in cash assets." (this after their pastor purchased a 'not that great' 16,000 sq ft home on 19 acres, and said that would be 'against Christ's teachings' to disclose what he was paid). A study by ECCU (http://web.archive.org/web/20141019033209/https://www.eccu.o... http://web.archive.org/web/20141019033209/https://www.eccu.o...) stated that churches use 3 percent of their budget for children’s and youth programs, and 2 percent for adult programs. Local and national benevolence receives 1 percent of the typical church budget.
- georgeburdell 7y agoIrrelevant. The point is at least the religious are operating homeless shelters/soup kitchens. OP lamented the lack of secular (presumably non-governmental) options, which makes about as much sense as lamenting why any private organization doesn’t spend on $cause