God Needs Money

According to a blog I saw George Carlin said the following: God is all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, all-wise, but he NEEDS money. Cute, maybe a little humorous if you view it from the correct, honest angle. Do people really think about this subject? There's a line in a song where a hippie assures God that he's doing fine and thanks Him for thinking about him as the plate is passed. For those of you who just don't get it, here's reality. It costs money for a group of people to build even a small, special building where they can gather to worship. They want a pastor that spends his time caring for the "flock" and studying the Bible to teach them instead of having a job. There's the water bill, the heating bill, and other things such as materials that have to be paid for. It is a luxury. Those who don't want to give an "offering" because it is the greed of the church or pastor fall into two categories - the liars and the ignorant. Sure it is possible that many churches expect more than they should but most churches get less than they need. Yes, the people who gather to worship God do need money. It's sad that there are so many people that think the way they do but, after all, they do need to buy that X-Box or that bass boat or whatever it is that they don't have yet. Hey, that kind of sounds greedy to me when there are hundreds of millions of people who have trouble keeping food and shelter. I guess that would have to fall into the hypocritical category. Surely you wouldn't want to hand any of that money over to someone who actually cares about and tries to help those barely-surviving people. Those greedy missionaries.