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Citation for that 99% figure? If it's anecdotal then I will give you my anecdote as a non Christian that I see 99% of churches doing charitable works.

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As a member of the LDS church, the church absolutely does charitable work.

The problem is that it doesn't do $32B worth of charitable work. Or anything close to it. And that, I think, is the problem.

Yeah I didn't say anything about the LDS church specifically, just that OP is talking about 99% of churches not being charities

It was meant to be a hyperbole.

Cool, my hyperbole is 99% of churches are charities. Now what? What is the point of commenting a hyperbole?

You said 99% of the churches do charitable work. I highly doubt that’s 99% of budget. I am sure most of it is used for operations. Just because I make donations every year, doesn’t make me a charity organization.

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