[jetpilot]

I think it boils down to this.

Which do you care more about. Your wallet or your neighbor.

If the answer is the former rather than the later, good luck passing through the eye of the needle.

Blessed are the meek. Blessed are the peace makers.

What would Jesus do?

So much wrong with this post, so little time.:biggrin:

Nothing is ever enough. Leave your wallet out on your porch and see how much your "neighbors" leave for you. Being charitable does not mean giving all your money to an incompetent and wasteful government. The government takes about half of your income with payroll and income taxes, most people give 10% or more to charity, then you have to pay property taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, gasoline taxes, beer taxes, and about a thousand other taxes. So if you don't go ahead and fork over what you have left, you are going to be hanging out with the devil for all eternity? No way. Do very rich people like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates give their billions in charity to the government? Of course not, the government would waste it all. Jesus managed to do a few good deeds without the government telling him how he should do it.

Sorry DW, but I'm not going to he## for not wanting to give government more of my money when I am already taxed to death a thousand different ways.