EdHieron said:
Also, the 70% isn't pulled out of my rear, Dummy. It's based on the fact that in the past November elections 70% of the Christian votes went to Tea Party and Republican Candidates, so even though USA Today failed to provide the data on how many Tea Partiers are Evangelicals or Fundamentalists ( note 70% of American Christians fall into these two misguided groups) and due to the Tea Party's oft repeated mantra that they want to put God back in everything: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S38VioxnBaI (see the number of signs in this video about the Tea Party advocating that the nation return to its false Christian roots (they must be meaning Salem, Massachusetts as the Founding Fathers had other beliefs), then they're must be quite a bit of cross-over between the two groups.
Also, the charities that Christians mainly give to are their churches (which should not be tax deductable donations) and really shouldn't count as charitable donations seeing how many of those tax free dollars actually go into the upkeep of their churches and into their ministers pockets (which is a real sin that these kooks make far more money than legitimate school teachers) ather than to any real charitable operations.
If you remove the donations that Conservatives make to churches from the number of dollars donated to legitimate charities, then they donate far less than any other group. |
i pointed out that time and time again you fail to be able to read graphs, and the you proceed to compliment me by calling me one of the greatest detectives in literature. so thank you.
also conservatives still give more usefull things, like blood (18% more), but that must be Church blood, they must keep that for them selves and have pastors dirnk during ancient egyption ceramonies, never reaching people in need, right. and actually if you exclude Church charities (which is absolutely rediculous) liberals only out give give conservatives by <3%.
also, there is a difference between giving offerings to the Church, like during a service (which a significant portion of that goes to charity anyway, for example, during any given church service my church gives 25% of donations to living water international), and giving to a Chirch sponsored Charity, which goes directly to things like giving clothes to the poor, food, shelter, furnature to needy, thats almost exclusively Church driven, in fact the catholic church, has given more than any of your liberal instititions could dream of.
and like a said liberals are less likely to give to things that will directly impact people like the poor, and instead give to muesums and universities