Good ad but I don't care about religion at all.

Ever since the US government stopped funding churches and began giving taxpayers deductions for donations to charities including churches, you'd be surprised.  Some churches are very tenacious in persuing "donations."

well its called donations..... cause they are donations.......?

No, he's right, some religions... just like every other group... are greedy. I can vouch for this first hand in what some might say a very odd situation.

I was walking down New street in Birmingham once, when this Buddhist approached me. He shoved incense sticks in my hand and told me they weree a gift, the he asked for a donation. |i had no money so I told him I wont give him one. He asked for his sticks back and I said they were a gift so I should keep them. Anyway, he would not let me go until I showed him my empty wallet. The next day I had to phone the council to tell them he was doing this, they agreed he had no right to be there asking for donations. It was surreal.

No it doesn't. It still doesn't mean that one would worship god simply out of knowledge that he exists alone. For one, I'd have to be convinced that I agree with his teachings.

The one thing for me, personally, that has always bugged me about the christian faith is that god is incredibly insistant that we love him, of our own free will mind you, yet if we do not we are banished to an unimaginably harsh eternity. That doesn't seem like something I'd love willingly even if I knew of its existance. Loving out of fear of consequence is not really love at all. Now, I don't mean to say that there are none out there who genuinely love your god, I'm just trying to say that this doesn't exactly cry benevolence.

So yes, I would acknowledge him as my creator, but nothing more if those were truly his teachings.

yeh but thats a bit different from sitting at church on sunday and giving a donation... ofcourse some people will take advantage but thats just the world for u....

When did the US government fund churches?

So... Buddism is a greedy religion because one person wanted a donation?

The only "greedy" religions i've seen are called cults.

I'm pretty sure you can't even be classfied a religion in most places if you demand payment for religion.

Several Christian denominations still charge a tithe I think.

No. No they don't 'charge' a tithe. I'd really like you to cite a denomination that has ever charged a tithe that was mainline, or within orthodoxy in any way.

The most extreme case I've ever heard of was a church that required it's members to tithe based on their income. That's the most extreme. Outside of that, it's 100% voluntary. There've been many preachers that have promoted tithing as a way for God's blessings, but it's very, very rarely a forceful thing.

Again, love to see actual citations on people being forced to tithe. I've been in church for 23+ years, and been to dozens, if not hundreds of church gatherings, and I've never once seen someone forced to give.