(June 30, 2025 at 10:31 pm)Sandman Wrote:(June 30, 2025 at 9:40 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: What percentage of the population is religious?
What's the other half doing?
Wow. More than one church.
Ah, you asked something like this before. Glad to get to reply.
First, we are talking about churches that do food banks. Of course most of the many christians who do not go to church are not running food banks.
They support food banks, and other causes on their own. At least the percentage of those that do charity.
Additionally many rural churches are too small to host food banks, so they do other things.
Second, they have plenty of other charities to work on; housing for the poor, support for homeless shelters, drug rehabilitation, after-school programs and Tutoring,
home repair and maintenance for those in need, back to school supplies drives, and others. It may seem that with government programs, and all the work
secular charities do that there would be no need for church charity, but churches are finding need in their communities and beyond.
Third, the study I cited previously refers to churches generally supporting food banks. It does not specify secular or no.
For clarification, this is just added to demonstrate that churches do support secular food banks.
It was pointed out to me that I said: "In a 2022 survey %63 percent of all Food Banks were funded by churches."
And what I really should have said is: "In a 2022 survey of twelve states %63 percent of all Food Banks were funded by churches."
It is bothering me that I got that wrong.
My responses above still apply, just for the twelve states, not all of America.
