Okay, I’ll go here. Lots of churches do lots of good things. But they are also social clubs for a lot of communities that would be taxed where they not under religious cover. Tithing to the Mormon church is not necessarily predominantly “charitable”.
Good point. If they are counting donations to your church as a charitable contribution, then that could change things. The reason I think that, is because I’ve been involved with a few local small churches. And in those churches, the vast majority of member donations went to pay the pastor’s salary, and upkeep of the church itself. Very little got spent on what we might think of as charity work.
Then again, I know someone could mention charities, in which the bulk of the expenditures of the charity are for salaries and upkeep of the organization, as opposed to being spent to deliver charitable aid to people. But perhaps that’s a subject for a separate thread.
So, according to you, voluntarily giving to a church is not “charity”?