Charitable Contributions Question For All

[WhatMoney]

Unless it is an oyster on the half shell....dont take or share my oyster

Sharing a raw oyster can be quite disgusting. Best to just swallow them whole...

You know your only real God is the government. He watches over all of you, knows when you're naughty or nice (oh sorry that's Santa), and monitors your life and finances more than you can imagine. He also asks, like that other God, for you to tithe a bit of your income to him, according to what you can afford, it's called progressive taxation. And he makes no promises about your fate after you die, but he's always there to help you when you need it here on earth; ("I'm from God and I'm here to help you.")

I wonder how successful religions would be if they didn't make any promises about the afterlife. Is there any religion that just says: "When your dead, your dead?"

[Bandit]

ROFL!!!!!

We need Bill Maher on Larry King & his opinion on exactly how this all works. Give the preacher the money & you live forever.

If I end up living forever which would be ok, I do hope Jerry Falwell & Benny Hinn are not there.

[fltoo]

Sharing a raw oyster can be quite disgusting. Best to just swallow them whole...

You know your only real God is the government. He watches over all of you, knows when you're naughty or nice (oh sorry that's Santa), and monitors your life and finances more than you can imagine. He also asks, like that other God, for you to tithe a bit of your income to him, according to what you can afford, it's called progressive taxation. And he makes no promises about your fate after you die, but he's always there to help you when you need it here on earth; ("I'm from God and I'm here to help you.")

I wonder how successful religions would be if they didn't make any promises about the afterlife. Is there any religion that just says: "When your dead, your dead?"

Buddhism. You keep getting reborn until you are so good when you die, you enter Nirvana and never have to be born again. And Nirvana is not heaven, it is the end of the born/die cycle.
Amazing what religions people have come up with over the centuries. lol

[Cali]

I give because I want to, not because I have to.