[WayneS]

How can you “drop religious giving” from the charitible efforts of conservatives?

That’s like saying, if you drop George Soros-influenced donations from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign funding, he took in less money than McCain.

[joesbucks]

I don't see the correlation between church charitable giving and Soros influenced giving on a person to person scale. What I mean by person to person is not the wealthy that funneled money to Obama through 529s but rather average person contributions that went directly to Obama out of desire for him to become president.

If churches stopped passing the plate, making giving/tithing a part of membership and having giving envelopes, church giving would drop dramatically.