(October 31, 2016 at 1:36 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(October 31, 2016 at 1:27 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: It's just that if they're going to preach "help the poor" they ought to lead by example. It would be far easier for the church to buy a bunch of food for people who are starving than I personally could, if I were still Catholic. Yet they keep raking in donations via the collection basket while exhorting followers to help the less fortunate. It's like some religious version of trickle-down economics.
Part of the collection basket money does go to the poor. And they often also have a second collection at the end of mass that goes entirely to the poor.
But the vast majority goes into the church's accounts, and I'm assuming a very large portion goes to the Vatican.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
