Catholic church depends in tithes to pay sex abuse lawsuits. I don't think it's a coincidence that without the "hes" the word says "tit".

How do you milk sheep?

And I thought only LDS does that.

Those tithes could end world hunger.

When we were church going in one of our churches we tithed. I wish I had that money back now.

I like the idea of tithing (not to a church though). I give at least 10% of what I grow to the neighborhood critters. I give more than 10% of my time to family, friends, or whomever might need my help. I'd love to be able (someday) to live on 1% of what I make and 'tithe' the rest to those that might need it. I think it's a good way to think.

Your one of the one's putting a crush on their business.

growing up the folks contributed, but the 10% wasn't important.....its an OT rule.

10%? Of your income? F that!

That's shocking!

I'm guessing my religious mom did.

Yep. I used to think it was god's plan that I tithe. So I gave almost perfectly. But I have stopped, thank god .

During my days as a Christian I was never flush enough to be able to get by on 90% of my income and we didn't teach tithing anyway, so no.

What we did teach was that while we aren't under the Mosaic law, we should be enthusiastic enough under grace (and of course have enough faith) to freely give MORE than 10%. So there was always some way to feel guilty or inadequate about how much (little) you gave.

I did a lot of my time in small churches with maybe 50 members on a good day when the wind was blowing in the right direction, so perhaps 20 families, and to the mortgage or rent and keep the lights on, every family had to do its part. So in fairness, I think a lot of those people do "give until it hurts" because they believe it's important and useful to do so. I now see that as a mistaken belief, but I do understand it just the same.

I was largely a starving student or just getting started in my profession during this period so I usually fudged. In those days I was very interested in authentic-sounding organs for example and saved enough to buy a small Allen digital organ for myself but installed it at the church rather than my apartment (better acoustics, can't bother the neighbors) and let them use it for services. I was interested in writing and so ran a church "newspaper" and donated my labor to print it by learning to run a printing press at another ministry in town, I would go in on Saturday and make the plates and do the press run myself. Things like that. I'm not sure the newspaper thing was really a priority for them but it did serve to promote their activities in the community and they couldn't fault me for not being "dedicated" or "committed".

The time and $$ I wasted in those days on "the things of God" was pretty epic relative to my personal resources and wealth but ... it's a sunk cost I guess.

Ha!

Scary...its all about the ?? ?

Yeah these religious folk claim to want a low-tax system, or even want to ban taxation, but then they try to get people to pay church tithes, and stuff. It's absolute scumbaggery.

I grew up in an atheist home, so church was a place to go for weddings, and later for funerals. And later still, not even the weddings, because we would skip the church part and just go to the party!

Growing up, the church published what each person donated the previous week in the bulletin. I know my parents were always embarrassed as they could only give $1.00. If a person gave nothing, that was listed!

No

Price of planes and ships are going up with tariff's got to raise contributions to 12%

good for you!

10% percent. Never. I consider church tithes a tax on the delusional.

I grew up in an Atheist home. We had 2 rules.

1. No smoking!
2. No tithing to the church!!!

Literally, that was it.

I’ve never given a damn cent to the church, I’m a Jew and there are no tithings. However no religious requirements when you don’t believe

I must have blown over $50k, thank god I saw the light in my early twenties.

I saved money and got an extra day off switching to atheism.