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That is 100% false. While some conservatives may donate more to charitable foundations, the legwork and handwork of charitable organizations is done by liberals.
Here's how you can know this. Go and volunteer somewhere where you're doing the actual WORK of a 501(c)3. Get up on a roof for Habitat for Humanity, mentor a child through Big Brothers/Big Sisters, take a weekly shift at your animal shelter, become a guardian ad litem for a CASA family. Take notice at a volunteer event. They're almost ALL liberals.
Get out more.
At the very least this is a more complicated topic than the simplistic and somewhat disingenuous "conservatives are more generous than liberals".
Only if you include religion as a charity. Otherwise, real charitable giving is dominated by the the non-religious.
It depends where the collections for that week go. If it is keeping the lights on, no. If it is the food shelter they do, yes. I may not always agree with the church due to their views or hypocrisy, but there is a number of charitable things churches and other houses of worship do. It isn't just collections that go into church infrastructure.
As for the War on Christmas, it is stupid. I am as non-practicing Catholic as you can get, and I do celebrate Christmas and do donate to causes as I see fit. The only thing I didn't do this year was an angel tree.
Umm, okay genius - what pray-tell is a "Holiday Tree"
I'm glad you asked.
"Holiday" is an abbreviated form of "Holy Day". The tradition of decorating trees goes back to religious practices of pre-Christian Paganism. It was adopted by the Christian church in an attempt to convert Pagans.
The war on Christmas is in the same category with Willie Horton, CRT and Caravans. Ohh i also forgot WMDs. All a bunch of bull crap talking points designed to scare the heeebeeejeeebeez out of "traditional" Americans. I almost forgot Election Fraud.
It depends where the collections for that week go. If it is keeping the lights on, no. If it is the food shelter they do, yes. I may not always agree with the church due to their views or hypocrisy, but there is a number of charitable things churches and other houses of worship do. It isn't just collections that go into church infrastructure.
As for the War on Christmas, it is stupid. I am as non-practicing Catholic as you can get, and I do celebrate Christmas and do donate to causes as I see fit. The only thing I didn't do this year was an angel tree.
I am as heathen as you can get. But I donate a fair amount to charity every year (Shriners Hospitals for Children and my local animal shelter) and I do most of my giving around Christmas time because I like the idea of a season of giving--"peace on Earth good will toward men" sort of thing. And I find this notion of a "war on Christmas" phony, ridiculous, and dripping with self-pity.
I am as heathen as you can get. But I donate a fair amount to charity every year (Shriners Hospitals for Children and my local animal shelter) and I do most of my giving around Christmas time because I like the idea of a season of giving--"peace on Earth good will toward men" sort of thing. And I find this notion of a "war on Christmas" phony, ridiculous, and dripping with self-pity.
It's a political strategy. Anything to get the goobers riled up.
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The war on Christmas is in the same category with Willie Horton, CRT and Caravans. Ohh i also forgot WMDs. All a bunch of bull crap talking points designed to scare the heeebeeejeeebeez out of "traditional" Americans. I almost forgot Election Fraud.
To be fair, there was a serious war on Christmas back in the late 90's.
Saying "Christmas" at the Winter Holiday school party was as frowned on as dropping the F bomb.
It was only a few years, but holy cow. In central Texas, where we hardly ever get snow, the Winter Holiday party had to focus on snow. Snow men, snow flakes, snowballs. Literally, no red and green. Certainly no Jingle Bells, and you'd have been hauled out in cuffs for singing Joy to the World.
And the people who enforced this most stridently, were members of Christian churches. Unbelievably psychotic.
The pendulum has swung back, and we can all say Merry Christmas again, and elementary school Winter parties (they're still winter parties) can feature chocolates in the shape of santa claus.
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