Anti gay-marriage atheist??

[Wyrd of Gawd]

@all:

I agree, I only give money to charities that I am morally comfortable with. The church likes to think of itself as a charity, but it isn't. If it was, it would just qualify as one like everyone else. But that would involve opening its books and it refuses to do that, I wonder why...

Everything they do for charity can be achieved through secular means, through charities that don't also spend some of your money on heinous things.

Of course you can't literally know where every penny goes and be totally sure nothing immoral might happen, but in the case of the Catholic Church, you know bad things will happen with your money. Why not instead give it to charities which support the reasons you're giving the money to the church in the first place? That way it all goes to those causes.

The idea that God needs money and isn't providing for his own church is a special kind of irony

But the Fourth Commandment in Exodus 34:19-21 says to bring cash (or a sheep) when you go to see God.