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I already give 11% of my income away, so yes.

Is 10% of that a church tithe?

No. But since you're so curious, why don't you post yours first?

My charitable budget mostly goes to $50k or so of annual healthcare spending, between premiums, copays, and whatnot. I've yet to find a charity willing to cover it, which is part of why I'm pretty skeptical about scaling that approach up even further.

If you're giving 11% to genuinely charitable causes, good for you! But you're very, very much an outlier.

Does it matter?

Yes.

Haha, why? Or are you just assuming all churches are Christian? Or does that not matter either?

The religion in question doesn’t matter.

I don’t see maintaining a church and staff as the same as maintaining a charitable clinic and its staff. As such, I don’t count a tithed dollar as necessarily equivalent as a dollar given to a high quality secular charity.

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