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Reply to "Is there any difference in the right wing religious nuts and the left wing religious nuts?"

Originally Posted by b50m:
Originally Posted by O No!:

Tolerance. G a y rights. A woman's right to choose. Charity for the poor. Conservation. Those are a few, for starters.

*** rights is not Biblical. Abortion is pre- meditated murder, not Biblical. Republicans give more to charity than democrats. Conservation is non-party. I belong to the Nature Conservancy and the Audubon Society.

Tolerance is an ideal but not a practice. Just look on this forum.

http://www.realclearpolitics.c...ore_liberal_giv.html


If many conservatives are liberals who have been mugged by reality, Brooks, a registered independent, is, as a reviewer of his book said, a social scientist who has been mugged by data. They include these findings:

-- Although liberal families' incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227).

-- Conservatives also donate more time and give more blood.

-- Residents of the states that voted for John Kerry in 2004 gave smaller percentages of their incomes to charity than did residents of states that voted for George Bush.

-- Bush carried 24 of the 25 states where charitable giving was above average.

-- In the 10 reddest states, in which Bush got more than 60 percent majorities, the average percentage of personal income donated to charity was 3.5. Residents of the bluest states, which gave Bush less than 40 percent, donated just 1.9 percent.

-- People who reject the idea that "government has a responsibility to reduce income inequality" give an average of four times more than people who accept that proposition.

 

Next! 

Was tithing classified as charitable giving in that study? 


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