You would think so, but up until very recently it was the left-leaning denominations that were making gains while more conservative churches were losing membership. If you've got a bible and you read and study it on your own...the leftist reading of what Christianity is all about will eventually be exposed for the false teaching that it is.
Ever been to Welfare Square in SLCGiving to a church that will be used by the church for their proselytizing work is not charity , its tax avoidance, the kolobian nutter outfit is the biggest one
Red states give more to churches, not charities
If you were more like the people of faith in Republican states, you wouldn’t be such tightwads. You would do more to help the needy in your communities, at least more than the socialist big government programs that you are always pushing down real Americans’ throats.
Or something like that.
Writer Philip Bump cites data from The Chronicle of Philanthropy that shows the 17 states that gave the most money to charities in 2012 all voted for Mitt Romney that year. Those also happen to be the most religious states in the country, so Bump sees a religious divide.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The old warning that correlation is not causation comes to mind, but Bump is right, religion almost certainly plays some role in this. It’s just not the role he thinks. People don’t give more because of religion, at least not that way.
Religious people give a lot of money to charity because churches, synagogues and mosques count as charities in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service. When they drop $1 or $20 on the collection plate on Sunday, it is a charitable donation.
To the IRS, a dollar given to the Thomas Road Baptist Church used to build an even grander palace for the Falwell clan in Virginia is the same as a dollar given to Meals on Wheels, the Red Cross or any number of charities that actually do some good in the world.
People in red states, then, give a lot of money to “charities” that do not do a whole lot of charitable work, unless you count convincing people to believe in fairy tales and to vote against their self-interest as charity.
Sure, some churches put donations to good work, but a lot more of that money goes to proselytizing and keeping preachers in the sort of lifestyle to which they have grown accustomed in an age of prosperity gospel.
If The Fix had just looked in the Washington Post’s archives, it would have found a report from 2013 that reported about one-third of all charitable giving goes to churches, etc. That doesn’t even include religious schools that indoctrinate students and charitable organizations that happen to be aligned with a faith; it’s just the houses of worship.
Red states give more to churches, not charities
No, the churches that are more worried about global warming than the hungry are. You know, the liberal ones.
Is that why all the northerners moving down here?
I've been to chicago, you good rats live a lot worse.
So ironic
Ever been to Welfare Square in SLCGiving to a church that will be used by the church for their proselytizing work is not charity , its tax avoidance, the kolobian nutter outfit is the biggest one
Red states give more to churches, not charities
If you were more like the people of faith in Republican states, you wouldn’t be such tightwads. You would do more to help the needy in your communities, at least more than the socialist big government programs that you are always pushing down real Americans’ throats.
Or something like that.
Writer Philip Bump cites data from The Chronicle of Philanthropy that shows the 17 states that gave the most money to charities in 2012 all voted for Mitt Romney that year. Those also happen to be the most religious states in the country, so Bump sees a religious divide.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The old warning that correlation is not causation comes to mind, but Bump is right, religion almost certainly plays some role in this. It’s just not the role he thinks. People don’t give more because of religion, at least not that way.
Religious people give a lot of money to charity because churches, synagogues and mosques count as charities in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service. When they drop $1 or $20 on the collection plate on Sunday, it is a charitable donation.
To the IRS, a dollar given to the Thomas Road Baptist Church used to build an even grander palace for the Falwell clan in Virginia is the same as a dollar given to Meals on Wheels, the Red Cross or any number of charities that actually do some good in the world.
People in red states, then, give a lot of money to “charities” that do not do a whole lot of charitable work, unless you count convincing people to believe in fairy tales and to vote against their self-interest as charity.
Sure, some churches put donations to good work, but a lot more of that money goes to proselytizing and keeping preachers in the sort of lifestyle to which they have grown accustomed in an age of prosperity gospel.
If The Fix had just looked in the Washington Post’s archives, it would have found a report from 2013 that reported about one-third of all charitable giving goes to churches, etc. That doesn’t even include religious schools that indoctrinate students and charitable organizations that happen to be aligned with a faith; it’s just the houses of worship.
Red states give more to churches, not charities
Ever been to a Church bean Warehouse in Burley, Idaho.
Ever gone and weeded sugarbeets on a Church farm.
I've lived in Stakes that have had Dairy Farms.
Ever been to an LDS cattle ranch. How about a fruit farm or a cannery
Ever been to Primary Childrens Hospitol in SLC, Utah
Need I go on?
All of which go to the poor, unemployed, and destitute.
Why no, no you haven't.
Your ignorance as well as your beliefe in fake news, as well as your sneer is amazing.
Oh and btw, I sign the checks in my church that go to the less fortunate. and you sir are an ignoramus.
Guno is from Shitcongo?I've been to chicago, you good rats live a lot worse.
Ever been to Welfare Square in SLCGiving to a church that will be used by the church for their proselytizing work is not charity , its tax avoidance, the kolobian nutter outfit is the biggest one
Red states give more to churches, not charities
If you were more like the people of faith in Republican states, you wouldn’t be such tightwads. You would do more to help the needy in your communities, at least more than the socialist big government programs that you are always pushing down real Americans’ throats.
Or something like that.
Writer Philip Bump cites data from The Chronicle of Philanthropy that shows the 17 states that gave the most money to charities in 2012 all voted for Mitt Romney that year. Those also happen to be the most religious states in the country, so Bump sees a religious divide.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The old warning that correlation is not causation comes to mind, but Bump is right, religion almost certainly plays some role in this. It’s just not the role he thinks. People don’t give more because of religion, at least not that way.
Religious people give a lot of money to charity because churches, synagogues and mosques count as charities in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service. When they drop $1 or $20 on the collection plate on Sunday, it is a charitable donation.
To the IRS, a dollar given to the Thomas Road Baptist Church used to build an even grander palace for the Falwell clan in Virginia is the same as a dollar given to Meals on Wheels, the Red Cross or any number of charities that actually do some good in the world.
People in red states, then, give a lot of money to “charities” that do not do a whole lot of charitable work, unless you count convincing people to believe in fairy tales and to vote against their self-interest as charity.
Sure, some churches put donations to good work, but a lot more of that money goes to proselytizing and keeping preachers in the sort of lifestyle to which they have grown accustomed in an age of prosperity gospel.
If The Fix had just looked in the Washington Post’s archives, it would have found a report from 2013 that reported about one-third of all charitable giving goes to churches, etc. That doesn’t even include religious schools that indoctrinate students and charitable organizations that happen to be aligned with a faith; it’s just the houses of worship.
Red states give more to churches, not charities
Ever been to a Church bean Warehouse in Burley, Idaho.
Ever gone and weeded sugarbeets on a Church farm.
I've lived in Stakes that have had Dairy Farms.
Ever been to an LDS cattle ranch. How about a fruit farm or a cannery
Ever been to Primary Childrens Hospitol in SLC, Utah
Need I go on?
All of which go to the poor, unemployed, and destitute.
Why no, no you haven't.
Your ignorance as well as your beliefe in fake news, as well as your sneer is amazing.
Oh and btw, I sign the checks in my church that go to the less fortunate. and you sir are an ignoramus.
Are you saying that those things are standard practice in most churches? Are you saying churches regularly spend more money helping the poor than they do buying their preacher a gigantic house, and fancy cars?
