Recently a church my family used to attend sent us a letter saying we are not members anymore because we have stopped donating to them. This makes me hate everything about christianity. The whole system is much too political and greedy.

Does this mean you have to pay to get into heaven?

Pay for 'Gods'love?

I'm not suprised one bit. When my parents wanted to get me baptized, they took me to their regular church. The people running it looked at their records, said my parents hadn't donated in a long time, and basically said they wouldn't baptize me.

Yep God really needs the money.

Yes, you must give money in order to do right by God.



***Wait. I started this post as a joke, then I remembered tithing (or titheing.. or something). You gotta pay 10 percent of your income (before taxes) to the church. Anyone know whether this is in the Bible (I don't care if it was added later, just wondering if it is in the accepted "Book of Rules") or just something verbally "demanded"?

quote:Originally posted by TijuanaTanker:

Does this mean you have to pay to get into heaven?

Pay for 'Gods'love?



No, it just means that that particular church requires you to pay money to be a member. It's not necessarily right, but thats not something that most churches do.

Your one example doesn't prove in any way that "God=Greed".



[This message has been edited by cakezone (edited 01-22-2007).]

quote:Originally posted by TijuanaTanker:

Recently a church my family used to attend sent us a letter saying we are not members anymore because we have stopped donating to them. This makes me hate everything about christianity. The whole system is much too political and greedy.

Does this mean you have to pay to get into heaven?

Pay for 'Gods'love?



Maybe some church workers need to pay bills? I don't know http://www.totse.com/bbs/rolleyes.gif (http://www.totse.com/bbs/rolleyes.gif)

Reminds me of the family guy episode when he went to synagogue.

Paraphrasing from memory/ass "I'm not donating, I already donated to church on sunday, and I'm pretty sure it all goes to the same god"