Cammmpbell
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- Sep 13, 2011
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Perhaps I'm missing your point. How is donating to charity "filthy lucre"? The term refers to a shameful or dishonest profit. Giving money to a church that donates that money is dishonest? Perhaps you can amplify your comment for us because I'm not at all clear what you're talking about.
Donating to Charity......ROTFLMAO!!!
New Buildings
Building additions
Building Maintenance
Preacher's Home
Preacher's Expenses
Musical Instruments
Sound Systems
Carpeting
Oak or Mahagony Pews
Steeples
Stained Glass
Youth Programs
Religious Retreats
Missionaries
Percentage to the Denomination or Convention Headquarters
ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC
And if you would like to include the Vatican add their hundreds of billions of dollars of fine art and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of gold and treasures that's even worse
Church is a load of horse shit devised by man to get their hands into honest, working people's pockets...honest, well meaning people who were brainwashed during their childhood.
Without the fact that each generation has brainwashed the next with that ancient god worship for milleniums the church couldn't draw a crowd when the circus is in town.
And this is your business..... why exactly?
No one tells you how to spend your money. So explain what gives you the right to whine about how they spend theirs?
I am not surprised that you're a rabid lefty.... you have no concept of personal responsibility. Everything is your business.... it isn't.
Yours nor mine. I've read the new testament no less than ten times and not once did I see where Jesus had any love for the wealthy. He said to take care of the poor and never said a word about a church. I love the story in St. Luke which is relative to rich vs poor:
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And IN HELL he lift up his eyes, being in TORMENTS, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and COOL MY TONGUE; for I AM TORMENTED IN THIS FLAME. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art TORMENTED. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of TORMENT. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, IF THEY HEAR NOT MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, NEITHER WILL THEY BE PERSUADED, THOUGH ONE ROSE FROM THE DEAD.