You should deploy on a humanitarian mission!

[Kasz216]

sapphi_snake said:

Kasz216 said:

Oh yeah.  It's generally the defense that's brought up based on the surprising fact that on average two things most dictate how much you give to charity.

How conservative you are... and how religious you are.

On average an Religious Conservative is going to give way more money, donate way more time to charity, donate more blood, and everything else... then a Democratic Atheist. 

The actual religion doesn't seem to matter so much as how observant you are... the more observant you are... the more you donate.  This is true even when you eliminate donations to nonsecular orginizations.

On average being the important thing to mention... because there are plenty of atheists who do a lot for charity... it's just there are a lot who don't.

Still, aren't conservative rleigious people more likely to be opposed to social programs, public education, public healthcare etc.?

Yep... by conservative that's exactly what they mean... Conservative when it comes to economic issues.

Makes sense when you think about it.

Those who donate more to charity are those who think it's the average person's job to help each other... and that government does a poor job with the money it earmarks for charities.

Those who donate less, or not at all think it's the governments job to deal with the poor.

One amusing case is Al Gore vs George Bush.  Al Gore is the Pro social programs + Green candidate.... yet when he ran... his tax returns showed he donated basically nothing to charity... and I believed used his "Lobbying" as the excuse for that...  and his house took up all kinds of electrictiy.

While Bush donated a lot to charity... and his house is powered by Geothermal energy.

In Gore's defense he does donate more to charity now, like his peace prize money... of course he makes a whole lot more too... so who knows how much it is in relative to his carbon credit buisness.