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Rejoinder: Your Pay Check is not about You

A friend decided to pick me up and ask questions on this post. He felt tithing, offering and tax constitute double taxation if they are all meant to redistribute wealth and my answer was affirmative yes. It constitute double taxation and there is nobody that explained tithe and offering better than Leke Alder so you can follow and read for greater insight. I have never met the owner of the page before but I have been inspired by the raw truth on tithing on this page. Since government and church do not sync in this era, tithe now double as another form of taxation.  That is why it is now elective and proactive to pay tithe and offering if you are a tax paying citizen. I know many church people might find this hard to take but inside they are suffering. Tithe and offering is still a tool for wealth redistribution. If my memory serves me right there is no place in the new testament were tithe was mentioned but offering was collected for those in need, for people on mission work and those people experiencing famine  The emphasis mandating tithe in this generation is more of mercantile drive than God's injunction. Tithe and offering can be used for social engineering in our environment especially where government has been short in meeting social responsibility.  It is also good in developed nations because government alone cannot do it all. Thank God for countries like UK that register churches as charity.  That is what church is meant for and not another capitalist movement

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