Christian researcher George Barna, in his book “Revolution,” in the 1990s pointed out a major disconnect in polling and reality. Most of his polls found that people who left church were not doing so because of “too much” religion, but because what they were getting was too watered down and was not serious enough.
Likewise, identification of “Christians” based on whether you “attend church regularly/weekly” gives a much different answer than “did you attend church last week?” The mere wording produced a whole different perspective.
I once did a research paper on tithing, and using the lower-bound # (”did you attend church LAST week”), the higher-bound # (self-identified “Christians”) and the “do you go to church” model, and using a 10% tithe for these numbers . . .
Based on the number of Christians in America, if #1 tithed regularly it would equal almost exactly the HHS budget;
#2 would yield 125% of the HHS budget;
and #3 would yield 250% of the HHS budget.
Conclusion, if even “nominal” Christians tithed, there would be no need for welfare at all. Churches could more than handle it.
Interesting. Churches are supposed to “look after their own”, at least - i.e. the household of faith should take of itself.
True. True charity was destroyed intentionally by the infiltration of all Christian churches (including the Catholic Church as Pope Piux X noted in 1907, as even Pastor Bonhoeffer noted when he came to America around 1930. He saw the elites like the Rockefeller family, literally buying (and controlling) the Riverside “Church” and plant his controlled puppet who was featured in all the “intellectual” circles (to control perceptions). Even on the cover of Time magazine and featured in all “religion” classes at Ivy League universities—as were all the pseudo-Christians, and irrational theology to flip 2000 years of ethics back to tribalism, materialism and slave cultures. Destroy Reason-—rational man—to create irrational people who have no conception of Truth (God), or Reality, so they are so ignorant they can’t even understand if they are a male or female-—total removal for reality for insanity-—useful idiots to be controlled and used as Lenin’s mobocracy and today’s university “students” who are unable of understanding Natural Law (our Constitution). They are programmed, warped “bots”, who were removed from the Natural family to be warped and mapped so they are incapable of free will (as Fichte planned—google 1810, “snow is black” quote).
The “God is Dead” crew (university mind controllers) took over everything by the 1970s so they could destroy the concept of “charity/true love” (Christianity) to normalize State slavery (socialism/lust/sodomy) in our little children and destroy the Natural Family (logic/reason) so “happy slavery” is the ONLY possible emotions for “thinking” for the ignorant, controlled, programmed Pavlovian masses.
It was all planned over 100 years ago by the God is Dead Lucifereans.