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Tithing is 10% of your income. If you make 50k/yr, that's 5k/yr. Is 5000/yr the main thing that stands between people and having children? That doesn't seems ve

• Trasmatta 1y ago
  If you have a bunch of kids like the church wants and are living paycheck to paycheck (like most people in this country), then yes, 10% makes a huge difference. You don't think $5k a year (or more) would make life easier for a large family?
  • WarOnPrivacy 1y ago
    > If you have a bunch of kids like the church wants and are living paycheck to paycheck (like most people in this country), then yes, 10% makes a huge difference. In actuality it doesn't because there are a lot of mitigating factors. There's some Church aid that shores things up. There's a lot of major support and resources from other members, in about every area you can think of. Long term benefits like careers and housing are more usual than not. If society was full of comparable networks like that and they were free, I might grant your point. But there really isn't. And if you move to an insular region of the country, it can be brutal to get established w/o some kind of introduction.