Glenn Beck calls for increase in charitable giving along with shrinking government. Do you agree?

[EdHieron]

killerzX said:

EdHieron said:
There's no proof that if the size of government is shrunk that people will give more to charity. Plus, the kind of giving Beck has in mind is giving to churches which would probably translate into those that receive charity from them being more likely to feel a need to join them or be beholden to them.

umm... except the within the first 24 hours of launching this "charity campaign" his audience donated MEALS, that doesnt really have anything to do with churches.

even if it did, when people give charitable donations to churches, that mostly goes to things like church funded food pantries, shelters, clothes and stuff.

Yeah, but there's the fact that his audience is mainly made up of Fundamentalist religious people that will no doubt take an opportunuty to share their beliefs with whomever they give food to, and people that receive benefits from such church funded businesses generally seem to be aware of the fact that it's churches contributing to their well being and, no doubt, there are usually placards in support of church ideologies hanging on the walls in such establishments, and the fact that they might not be so generous with those that they perceive to be non-believers or those not kowtowing to the churches' party lines see the Catholics refusal to give out birth control devices as called for in Obama's healthcare plan.

And at the root of all this is a plan to strengthen the churches.