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MikeWaters · 04-03-2015, 02:52 PM

I was reading a bloomberg (?) article about church finances, and if I am recalling the figure correctly, the church gives about 0.7% of its revenue to charity. They compared a mainline protestant denomination (Methodist?) that gave over 20%. They also said that the church's spending on the downtown mall project in SLC dwarfed the charitable spending that happened combined over 25 years (2 billion vs. 1 billion).

So I was reading last night about how Obama visited church leaders and how the church was extolling its spending on charity.

Is there something that I am missing? Like maybe the Bloomberg article isn't correct in how it calculates the %?

Churches in the Dallas area do a lot of charitable work. Heavy lifting. Running homeless shelters and the like. Mormons have no idea.

04-03-2015, 02:52 PM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	How much money does the church give to charity? I was reading a bloomberg (?) article about church finances, and if I am recalling the figure correctly, the church gives about 0.7% of its revenue to charity. They compared a mainline protestant denomination (Methodist?) that gave over 20%. They also said that the church's spending on the downtown mall project in SLC dwarfed the charitable spending that happened combined over 25 years (2 billion vs. 1 billion). So I was reading last night about how Obama visited church leaders and how the church was extolling its spending on charity. Is there something that I am missing? Like maybe the Bloomberg article isn't correct in how it calculates the %? Churches in the Dallas area do a lot of charitable work. Heavy lifting. Running homeless shelters and the like. Mormons have no idea.