do you tithe?

[Anonymous]

I only go to church a few times a year, but I pledge and give $750/year. Which is almost twice what i pay for the gym membership I use several times a week, so I sometimes wonder if I should just stop going/paying for church, but it's an easy way to give to charity and I do like my church. I'm just not that religious. (I give about 2% a year to charity and would like to get it closer to 3% but I don't make much money, I'm a single mom supporting a household and my daycare costs eat up a big chunk of income.)

[Anonymous]

$3000 a year, auto deducted from our checking account each month.

[Anonymous]

We do, between giving to church and other charities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing to not..the 10% thing is not really applicable today; it was an Old Testament decree. One does not have to give 10%....simply give whatever you can comfortably afford. God does not put an amount on how much to give, but instead asks that the giver does so cheerfully, not grudgingly.

True; also, God is imaginary, so you can give whatever you want.

Oh how you crack me up!

[Anonymous]

Whole thing run by men, therefore can also be financed by men

[Anonymous]

I don't give a rat's ass what Michelle Singletary says.

Seriously? I love her. I think she rocks. Not a church-goer myself, so the tithing thing doesn't apply to me, but she basically treats the tithing like any other financial responsibility, so you can apply her advice to another goal you have.

[Anonymous]

Yes - I think M. S. is great too!!

[Anonymous]

I read Michelle Singletary regularly, and generally like her. However, as a white woman who was not raised by, and has no financial obligations to, extended family, I do find it hard to relate to a lot of her "Color of Money" columns. I've always wondered what happened to her parents that caused her to be raised by her grandmother.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read Michelle Singletary regularly, and generally like her. However, as a white woman who was not raised by, and has no financial obligations to, extended family, I do find it hard to relate to a lot of her "Color of Money" columns. I've always wondered what happened to her parents that caused her to be raised by her grandmother.

Ditto. Is her oldest "kid" her DH's kid from a first marrriage or another relationship?

[Anonymous]

Jesus didn't require.

[Anonymous]

No. I give to no religious institutions whatsoever.

I do, however, give to many other non-religious charities throughout the year.

[Anonymous]

Not biblical to tithe. Tithes were to the temple priests and they were paid in grain, not money.
So if you want to, become a farmer and find a levite priest to give a portion of the grain harvest.

Women and single parents and widows were never expected to. God is not here to bankrupt us. Priests are not poor and churches are spending the money on buildings and parking lots etc, not on handouts to the dregs of society