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Originally Posted by tompe
I am pretty sure that donations in the US does not reflect individual virtue. I think they are done for mostly egoistical reasons.
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Obviously I can't speak for anyone else, as I neither have nor claim any power to peer inside other people's hearts to weigh their motives and thoughts. Further, I admit to being uncertain as to what, precisely, you might consider to be an "egoistical reason" for donating to charity.
Within those, merely human, limitations, I can only say that the charitable donations I, personally, make are based primarily on two things: a desire to help others who are less fortunate than I, and an acceptance of a responsibility to use the resources in my keeping in the service the God that I believe in.
Please note that nothing in any of that requires or expects anyone
else to believe as I do. Nor, unlike taxation based "giving," does it require anyone else to contribute to the causes I find worthy of my support.
