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tgam.ca Actress Nina Dobrev talks about her experience in Africa and getting involved with events like WE Day. The Globe and Mail is taking an in-depth look at the state of charitable giving. As part of the series, we’ve interviewed prominent philanthropists about their causes and their perspective on charitable giving.
2008 Tax Policy Conference – “Our Nation’s Founding Principles and Our Tax Code – Consistent or In Conflict?” The architects of our nation took great care to constitute a limited government founded on personal responsibility and individual liberty. Do our internal revenue laws promote or undermine these founding principles? Are they an appropriate vehicle for implementing sweeping social policy? These and other questions will be the focus of our conference. Panel II: Charity: Whether and, if so, How Our Tax Laws Affect Charitable Activities, Religious Institutions, and Free Speech –Mr. Lee E. Goodman, Esq., LeClairRyan –Mr. Kevin Hasson, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty –Ms. Anne D. Neal, American Council of Trustees and Alumni –Moderator: Mr. Matthew Vadum, Capital Research Center National Press Club Washington, DC
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Question: Do liberal Christians want government to take over their charity assignment, replacing charity with coercion?
The Christian walk requires responding to God’s love with charitable works. However, today’s liberal Christians seem ready to throw out Jesus’ call to “freely give” with government coercion schemes that create temptations to irresponsibility, so that the poor can draw government employment for using drugs, practicing premarital sex, developing poor employment records, and now, refusing to take responsibility for their medical bills. Unlike charity, government entitlements provide incentives to irresponsibility rather than repentance. Moreover, government programs seize assets under penalty of law rather than providing for voluntary giving.
My question is, do liberal Christians hope to excuse themselves from Christ’s call to effective charitable action by assigning benevolence to ineffective government?
Big Bad Bob, your analogies fail because roads, police, and border controls are legitimate government services for the general welfare, not checks written to individuals as incentives to irresponsibility.
Answer:
Answer by PattyAnn
I have no thought whatsoever of turning over my responsibility to the government.
What makes you so judgemental? And negative?
Question: What is the difference between charity and philanthropy?
Answer:
Answer by Malik L
Mostly semantics
Charity mainly implies just giving. Dropping some change into the homeless guy’s cup
Philanthropy implies a more active stance. Setting up charities and fundraisers. Organizing and such. Setting up a foundation.
Question: Conservatives give more to charity, but Christians give less. So who exactly…?
So who exactly are the non-Christian Conservatives who are doing all the charitable giving?
“When you look at the data,” says Syracuse University professor Arthur Brooks, “it turns out the conservatives give about 30 percent more. And incidentally, conservative-headed families make slightly less money.”
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2006/12/06/who_gives_to_charity
“…American Christians’ financial giving typically amounts, by some measures, to less than one percent of annual earnings. And a startling one out of five self-identified Christians gives nothing at all…”
http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=337112&p=1006323
Answer:
Answer by greenjellybean
It didn’t say only Conservative Christians give less. It said on average, Christians give less. Not all Christians are conservatives. So, if you have Conservatives giving to charity and non conservatives not giving to charity then a group that consists of both conservatives and non-conservatives would have a lower rate of charitable contribution (strictly because of the non-conservatives factoring into the equation) as a result.