(October 24, 2013 at 5:55 am)themonkeyman Wrote: Hey,
I have a friend who works for an IT Company. One of their clients is the largest church in their area pulling down over £2,000,000 per year. He told me that the Church were looking to get servers installed that sounded 'OK' to me a large church needs servers to keep staff and everything else ticking over.
But the told me that the Church had applied as a Charity for a super large subsidy to get servers and licence keys for Microsoft Software.
Stuff like this even when I was a Christian made me sick, There are people starving / businesses going bust yet the Church with the most money tries again to play the 'We are poor card'. This church has over £10,000,000 in their savings yet want a subsidy on a few hundred pounds because they claim they are a 'Charity'.
To me a Charity means giving not Hoarding. I think if the Church did its Job and gave its riches away they would actually help the world as a whole. Take the Vatican it has billions upon billions you have to remember its pretty much the oldest Private Country in the world so they are bound to have loads of coin in the coffer's that no-one knows about.
I'm just so pissed off
And understandably so. Especially understandable when it comes to the Vatican.
But there are millions of churches though, and their mileage (and theology) differs. They're not all rich, and they're not all less charitable than they should be.
