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Originally Posted by creekster
WHy? You are suggesting it is a self serving donation. Ok. Most politicans donate for self serving reasons. Some big donors give to have building named after them. Others give becaseu it makes them feel good; or feeds their ego. Many others donate for a stinkin' tax deduction, for cryin' out loud. I think eternal welfare holds up pretty well comapred to these. To somehow discount the validity of these contributions, especailly when they are as proportinately large as they are, and to implicitly defend a schmuck like Biden for only giving $300 becasue (presumably) his is genuine as compared ot someone paying 10% of groos strikes me as self-serving itself.
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Wow, creekster. Nice.
People donate to causes they believe in. Obviously the church is a cause that active LDS members believe in. They want to support what they believe is the cause of God.
No one forcibly takes tithing from members, just like no one forces them to be chaste, kind, honest, or to follow any other commandment. It's offered, often at great sacrifice, as an exercise of faith.
To call it compulsory and self-serving is quite shallow.