(August 26, 2012 at 4:08 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: Really really really big churches = tons of money going into collection
Imagine if all those same parishioners weren't pushing their money through a church siphon, but rather giving directly to charities across the globe. No 100million dollar auditoriums. No pastors' exorbitant salaries. No massive air conditioning and utility bills, and bonus ... a billion extra people not wasting time in a church pew week after week. Just imagine the good that could be done if we didn't have billions of religious twits spending time on their knees when they could be actually doing something. Imagine all that money wasted on jesus and his henchmen being used for charity instead of church properties, buildings, cars, bank accounts, and all manner of things completely unnecessary. Wouldn't it be nice to see that fat slob of a preacher go and actually earn a living for a change?
"tons of money into a collection" ... what a fucking joke.
Quote:Sure, you can tax those charitable donations - money given from peoples AFTER TAX INCOME - and guess what that will do.
What a huge steaming cup of butt juice. Offerings in a plate are not a charitable donation in the sense of the term "A Charity."
Bill Gates makes charitable donations and writes them off his taxes. Putting your allotted "first of the fruits" into the offering plate is not considered a donation to a charity, nor do the great majority of christians use their few dollars a week as a write-off on their taxes. Most people like yourself don't even keep track of where the money goes and often have no idea how much actual good it even does. I was a strict baptist of 10 different churches for nearly 20 years ... you can't bull shit me.
You see what you want to see, but the truth is, if all the christards gave 100% of their money to charities and never gave a dime to ancient religious cults such as yours, we would likely have storehouses overflowing with goods and a few extra diseases researched out of existence.