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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5557477" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>How do you know what most church goers do?  I've seen surveys years ago that showed that conservatives on average give more than liberals.  I can attest to that in my own family.  My brother is extremely liberal, makes three times what I do, his wife even more than him, and he won't give my mother who lives at the poverty line $100 a month.  But they take nice vacations all the time, eat out at nice restaurants all the time, buy nice things.  Heck my father, a retired minister, is giving my mother $150 a month and they've been divorced 51 years.  He averages about $1200 a month in giving with $500 going to his congregation.  You're assuming they're all this or that without really knowing because it makes you feel better.</p></blockquote><p></p>