Why the Roman Catholıc Church never share theır wealth to many poor country, they must be a good example,?
105439
Greed. that is why the catholic church will not share their wealth with poor nations. They have enough money to helpo and feed the poor, but they choose to keep it for themselves.
190087
No it just makes no sense. The government would not only use it for personal gain but political gain as well!!\nThe Church should be left to those who care about the saving of souls,not the people who just want power.
260270
I think that the Unied States government should not spend money on churches- being that the church and state are supposed to be unconnected... i think the money should go to the children that are hungry on the streets of the inner cities.... or maybe some of it should go to feeeding dieing children elsewhere in the world, there are starving people everywhere and yet millions of dollars go into the building of extravagent churches around the world....
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Jennifer I think you might have innocently equated Mosques = Churches. A church is a Christian Organisation; eg the Catholic Church, the Pentecostal Church. Whereas a mosque is just a place of worship.\nSo to answer your question, yes. Muslims do give 2.5% of what they earn or save in the fiscal year to the (Islamic) Treasury as Zakaat (a form of tithe). Zakaat is the 4th pillar of Islam and the collection is distributed to the poor and the deserving others such as orphans, widows, students etc.\nThere are many verses in the Quran and Hadith that extol charity.\n\nThe problem with the Muslim world, if you must know, is that of ignorance and greed. Not many people know prayers, let alone almsgiving. The oil-producing absolute monarchies of the Islamic World must satisfy and maintain their Main clients of the West and at the same time maintain the status quo (of ignorant subjects) in order that the absolutists may perpetuate and therefore are left unchallenged. \nThat more or less explains the abject poverty of the Muslim world.\n(My views alone; not shared by many)
806076
i think it comes from the fact that the general view of a catholic is believeing that this life is just "preperation" for eternity.  they dont think that their time on earth is as important as the time after their death.  that being said i think the catholic religion has an appeal to poorer people because it teaches that your material things dont matter, and as perfect as catholics claim to be, they still have jealousy running through their minds.  that jealousy is not manifested through the attempt to gain wealth, because they dont think that anything obtaind on this earth matters, so they shun the upper class for living life better than they are.  that to me is an extremely depressing way to look at things.\n\ni know catholics are gonna hate me for saying that but take a psychology class and stop being ignorant.
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The Philippines is 80% Catholic, 10% Evangelical, 10% others.\n\nChristianity is not directly proportional to Economic status. The economic success of a country depends on the discipline of the authorities and ordinary citizens combined. I respect the faith in God but only God will bless a nation if the people are both God-fearing and doing their work right.\n\nTerrorism, corruption, poverty mentality and laziness can be the main culprits.\n\nHope I have answered you Q.
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I'm sure they expect unreasonable amounts, since much of that money goes into the pockets of the people who work there, often times excessive amounts.  That whole 10% thing started way back when...you'd invade a town, take all their stuff and give 10% of it to the King.  It was never intended to be a religious offering, but lo and behold it's ended up that way.  Sure, 10%...I'll take that!\n\nThen they'll make you feel guilty about not giving enough, saying "bad things will happen to you".  \n\nI'd say pick a church that closely matches your beliefs (if you're into all that) and should you choose to give them any money, give what you can afford, not what they're telling you to give them.
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that costs money and with no return. this way they gain money. poor wont give you oil! multi million contracts! be realistic. just go in non christian countries and local churches there in time of disasters. even they wont feed those who say no to conversion. no gain no charity. these are the time of give and take. no giving without return .
1183700
Yes, lack of wealth doesn't discriminate against your religion.
852022
u know its suprising but, its not the wealthy ones but the ones who are rich from before that dont really respect money that much, while those who face hardships and earn money and are now rich that respect money and understand its worth. Thats why the donate to the needy cause they know what it means.
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You are correct, it is unbiblical for a preacher to require members to tithe of income. Also tithing was always food never money and the tithe was always eaten by the tither. Read Deut. 12 and 14. Can a church survive? Yes but not as a mega church. the churches would be smaller and be more quality than quantity (Jesus himself only had twelve apostles). Eliminate tithing and the pastor is forced to live by faith, not many of them want to do that though.Our church does not believe in tithing of income nor do I take an offering(some do give anyway). When God decides it is time to close up then we will close up. All churches should run on faith not business tactics. The only thing most pastors have faith in is their ability to con their members out of more money.\n\nAnd in Malachi when it mentions will a man rob God(preachers love that one) no one mentions that this is written to the Levitical priests Mal 2:1. It was the priests stealing the tithe from the tithers. It must be an honest mistake that they forgot this. lol. Malachi 3:8 ties in with I Samuel 2:12-17. There were corrupt priests stealing then and there are corrupt preachers stealing now. I can hear the lake of fire calling for them now. Shhh listen and you will hear it also, it sound sorta like this 'will the ushers please come forward'
73500
Agree with the above, except I believe it was so successful because the Kings of Europe wanted to throw off the control of the Church, so they encouraged the religious reformation to their political and economic advantage.  If they had not, it probably wouldn't have been successful.
967347
Well, if you count the politicians and televangelists as Christians, then definitely the Christians have more earthly wealth.  If you leave off all politicians, kings, and tv personalities, I bet they'd be about even.
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I honestly think it is a financial issue.  I think the problem with organized religion is the organization itself and the fact that it requires money to maintain.  Once you have a mortgage and mouths to feed, you have to focus on fundraising - and that means building and keeping a congregation.\n\nI think many feel that to do that, you need to prove to the faithful that your version of the Universal Truth is the correct one and the others are false.  The worse you can make the punishment also seems to help to keep people in line and making their weekly donations.  I think it is a shame, but a harsh reality of our capitalistic society.\n\nCouple that with the histories of bloody intolerance on all sides (the Roman pagans fed the Christians to the lions, the Christians invaded and murdered the Celtic Pagans, etc.).  No one side is at fault - with the aggressive nature of humans, this is a natural consequence of growth and the development of our warrior nature.\n\nThere is a way to rise above it, though.  I think that if we look at the religions of the world, we can see commonalities, similarities - a basis in love, truth and good will.  If we could focus our attention more on the similarities and let the donation chips fall where they may, we could come out of this as 1 planet ,1 people, infinite diversity for maximum prosperity for all.
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AMEN! Can you imagine the good that could be done with all the money wasted on real estate, maintenance, utilities, buildings, etc. all in the name of Church.  What if we gave up all the buildings and met in smaller groups like in Acts 2.3 and 4?  What if we used all the money that saved and help the poor, the orphans, widows and perform the ministry of Jesus?  Wow, what a concept!
1068333
Christians are successful and are very powerful in this world. Other groups of people want what we have but they know that inorder to get this kind of power they must convert and this is something they just will not do. So instead they have decided to unite against us.
511662
AN interesting point!\n\nWhich is probably why churches are barely holding their own in the 'self sufficient' countries whilst in the third world churches are growing in numbers like wildfire.