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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those of you who tithe, do you give the full 10% to the church or do you interpret this to mean that you can give some of it to missions or any other cause you find worthy[/quote]

We give most to the. church. My grandfather was a pastor until his church hit a financial bump. They cut his already meager salary in half. Clergy kids deserve to eat, too.[/quote]
Really? Are the kids of the clergy going hungry now?
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When the church won't pay  pastors enough to feed their kids, it's definitely time to look for another job -- and maybe question their faith.[/quote]
I stopped tithing because I realized I was far poorer than the pastor, the class divide started to be obvious and it made me feel uncomfortable.
 Then I started to research the doctrine of tithing and found this to be a 20th century invention.
[b]The Bible does not expect tithing from women[/quote][/b]

Where does the Bible say that?[/quote]
[b]Well
Grain harvest was from fields owned by men, Abraham's war loot was by soldiers who were men. Priests are men, financial decisions are by men
Again and again there is the theme that the congratulation needs to take care of widows, orphans, homeless and poor. A church should not accept money from a struggling single parent, but should be there for those people[/quote][/b]

OK, so you admit it's not in the bible.  And "women" as you said aren't all "widows, orphans, homeless and poor".  You are making this up as you go.  Or you are saying that women have no position of authority in the LDS church, which is true.  You can't hold the priesthoods.  You can't even get into the Celestial Heaven without having married a man with a Temple recommend who has done all the  ridiculous things the LDS church insists on.  AND, if he remarries, he gets two or three wives in heaven (pulling them through the curtain) but you cannot.  You can be sealed to only one man.  Nowhere in the Bible or even in LDS tradition does it say women don't have to tithe.  But there is a loophole for rich mormons.  Romney doesn't tithe the full 10%[/quote]
Regardless of what role women play in the congregation, the tithe in Bible is a grain offering to be paid at harvest time and to be of the increase
Other amounts were an increase of the flock. If you got 9 new cows you did not need to donate a cow, only if you got 10
This was a requirement for the men
According to church history tithing only came into the church doctrine in this very last century. You certainly never tithed of an inheritance or of the increase if you sold a property, car

My advice is to let men finance it as they are the ones running it and making all financial decisions.[/quote] Hmmm, in my denomination (not strictly Christian although there are Christians among us), there are more women in authority than men.  However, we don't have tithing 10% either.  We do need to donate to keep the congregation and denomination afloat and make sure it thrives so we donate.[/quote]

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