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Originally Posted by Finny61
That is not true. Tithing is preached from time to time, the traditional guideline has always been 10%, but people do not get singled out in every church organization for missing a tithe or not tithing, perhaps some of the crummy churches you've been to.. that's too bad especially if it resulted in putting you in a 'lower social class'.
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You contradicted yourself, you say it isn't true, but then you say "perhaps in some of the crummy churches you've been to", so which is it?
It is in fact true. If you actually read what I write...
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but people do not get singled out in every church organization for missing a tithe or not tithing
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No where did I say in every single church, and no where did I say any church actually singles you out, I said "if it is known". Just like any other social group there's things that result in higher social standing and things that result in lower social standing.
In every single evangelical church I've been to in 30+ years tithing was a requirement to be involved in ministry. If you weren't tithing the pastor would usually talk to you encouraging you to, and people that were having financial problems the first thing they were encouraged to do was tithe.
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Originally Posted by Doctordestiny
Disagree 100% with the bolded part. I'd put the percentage of religious people at under 10%. Most people might be believers, but that doesn't make them religious.
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Semantics and irrelevant to the point. The point is that a much larger portion of people self identify as adhering to some kind of belief in God and participating in an organized religion to one degree or another, and unless peter12 is using the same difference in definition between religious and believers that you are and has taken that into account in his informal analysis I don't see how that's relevant.