On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> My mom does admissions for the school > > Oh I thought you'd said church.
The church has a school, my mom works for the church doing admissions for the school. >> Have you ever heard of charity? >> They are/where pretty good at it. > > Definitely alot of great secular charities out there. Churches > certainly don't have any corner on that market. Thought most > charities usually don't invest in huge symbols for their rooftops and > buildings - so I guess they actually have more to apply to actual > charity work. Doesn't the Red Cross pay $1 million a year to the CEO or chairperson? Churches do a lot of good for the communities weather you donate or not. The fact that the worshipers use a building to gather rather than a field shouldn't bother you so much. > So if you think that people have stopped giving to churches because of > the scandals, they presumably are still giving to charity, just not > churches. Unless it's really just the economy and has nothing to do > with the scandals at all. Most charitable contributions are way down because of the economy. The scandal at the church, which has been going on for what a decade? is making it worse. So low contributions and high lawsuit payouts has them very worried about survival. It's not about protecting the 4% of abusers, it's about saving the 96%. > Seriously though, and this isn't an argument, it's something I have > thought about before... If all the money currently donated to > churches were to go directly to charities instead, could more good be > done in this world? If huge fancy church buildings (that mostly sit > empty 6 days a week) didn't have to be maintained, and all that goes > along with it - would we be able to double the charity work that could > be done? Triple it? > > Interesting thought... The church is the charity, too much to even list all the good they do for communities. As to your point wasn't the Live-Aid concert all about that? What a waste of ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:315666 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
