Comments for Stop, Think, Repeat! http://www.stopthinkrepeat.com Analyzing the beliefs of today and the discoveries of tomorrow. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:09:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on On the origin, concept, and meaning behind tithing by Tim Rhoades http://www.stopthinkrepeat.com/religion/pondering-the-origin-concept-and-meaning-behind-tithing/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Tim Rhoades Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:09:29 +0000 http://www.stopthinkrepeat.com/?p=25#comment-3 I think this is a lesson that has been lost to most modern religions or at least the practitioners of the religions. The churches of today, along with the people of today, have become entirely too focused on the monitary value of things and on money itself. During high school I dated a girl whose family believed they were destined to be poor by decree of a religious document given to the father and they would fight to scrap together the 10% needed to pay tithing every month despite this condition because they believed they had to. Any religion that supports this life style and supports a family keeping itself floating above the poverty line because of these beliefs seems fundementally flawed in my opinion. - Tim I think this is a lesson that has been lost to most modern religions or at least the practitioners of the religions. The churches of today, along with the people of today, have become entirely too focused on the monitary value of things and on money itself. During high school I dated a girl whose family believed they were destined to be poor by decree of a religious document given to the father and they would fight to scrap together the 10% needed to pay tithing every month despite this condition because they believed they had to. Any religion that supports this life style and supports a family keeping itself floating above the poverty line because of these beliefs seems fundementally flawed in my opinion.

- Tim

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