Is it finally happening? Is Christianity finally going to start being based?
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Id donate 10% to the church if it meant feeding the poor, taking care of the sick, even for architecture/social development (brewing beer, garden, cheese). The problem is that the 10% is now 46% (it can go up to 60% here , and thats not even counting sales tax/property taxes/etc) and government doesn't do any of that. It doesn't take care of the poor. It doesn't treat the sick. It just wastes the money in war/immigrations/more laws to deprive you of your "rights"
You've unintentionally hit the crux of it: charity vs extortion.
You're willing to donate for charity, and this is widely understood to be a virtue. But this is a choice you're making, to give of yourself.
Taxation is the government taking it from you, without your consent, and enforcing it with the ultimate threat of violence. If you don't pay your taxes, first the IRS will send you letters demanding it, and if you still refuse, they'll send armed cops to arrest you. And if you somehow resist the armed police, they'll send the national guard after you, because clearly you're a danger to society.
Taxation is just legalized armed robbery. You have no right to refuse, no right to choose what your taxes are used to pay for, nothing.
Yup, big government makes everything worse. It's another way of taking power away from people.
Before government, people were thankful to other people for taking care of them when they didn't have to. This also fostered positive relationships between people.
With government, it has created a relationship where the poor feel entitled to being provided for and the ones paying for it feel that they're being robbed. Any thankfulness or gratitude goes to the government and not the people paying for it (I haven't looked it up, but I'm betting charity is led by white people).
^This Also they print as much money as t hey want anyway, so it really doesnt matter.
A fucking surgeon should not be makig $700k a year. A teacher should not be making 100k a year. Elon shoudlnt be able to make trillions (out of printed money)
This world's a joke and not a particularly funny one
You don't have to give it to the Church, it's a general principal: whatever you make, prepare to give a tenth away to help others. It's basic reciprocal altruism, so long as you live around other Christians.
It's a good principle, but we live in a fallen world.
People are taught how to masquerade as Christian from a young age - in schools, within family dynamics, and indeed in the Church, society rewards those who merely "act the part." But anyone who has witnessed the mask slip and seen what's underneath knows you have to be very careful of whom you support, financially or otherwise.
Being deceived and taken advantage of is one thing; failing to exercise discernment is another.
The problem also lies in how the modern West is set up. The churches used to be the heart of villages, towns, small cities. Right in the center. Your tithe would go to a lot of what you said. Nowadays though it... There are some good churches that give back to the community. And some that send all of it to Israel and various parts of Africa.