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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
I commend you for your charity but make no mistake there are plenty of ways of helping the less fortunate without using a donation plate at a church. I can honestly say 100% of the money,housing and time I've donated to the less fortunate has gone to the people who need it not a tax free church who mostly feed their leader in riches.
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I agree one doesn't have to go to church to be charitable, and you are to be commended for your actions. The church is just one way to do it in a collective manner, and to be one way to dentify many of those who need the help. Also, I don't believe a person has to go to church to believe in religion.
The churches these days are struggling financially to survive, with many congregations aging rapidly. I think last year I heard that the United Church were losing a church a week. In my experience I have never met a rich minister.
I recall our minister meeting a person who said to him, "Why should I go to church, they are all a bunch of hypocrites". Our minister responded, "Come on in, we can always use another one".