It is high-time for a new Commandment — one that would force preachers to re-enliven their innate integrity, one that would force churches to finally actualize their most meaningful purpose, and one that would force religions to finally embody a righteousness more pure & true …  And that Commandment is the following:

Thou shalt NOT tithe money — ANY money — to anyone but the truly poor.

There are people in need all around all of us every day. We don’t need our churches to help us distribute our Kindness, and we sure as Hell (pun intended) don’t need to give them payments of any kind to absolve us of our sins.
If God is not the essence of perfect Love, then tithing money to our ‘religious leaders” won’t soothe His tendency towards celestial fickleness & greed anyway … And if God IS the essence of perfect Love, he sure as Heaven doesn’t want our material gifts to go where they are not needed.

It’s time for us all to quit enabling churches to half-do for others what we should have been fully & courageously doing all along. When it comes to Love & Kindness, it’s time to cut out the middle man and go give them directly ourselves.

 

Amen … Let it be so.

P.S. Remember as well that a true Man (or Woman) of God is never one penny wealthier than the poorest member of their congregation … period.

“Woe to you, scribal and Pharisaic hypocrites! For you tithe mint and anise and cumin, and yet have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and compassion and faithfulness.” ~ Matthew 23:23

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before others in order to be seen by them … So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets … But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your alms may be given in secret.” ~ Matthew 6:1-4

 

 

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