HE DID NOT CALL YOU AN IDIOT
just Mathematically Challenged....
I have the good sense to know when we are pretending to be gracious in giving and when, in fact, we are just fat, proud and selfish !!!!!
Are you describing yourself?
How much did you give last year?
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David -- stop treating me like I am some kind of idiot. Go back and look at Jonathan's post. I don't have time to retrieve and defend -- but my memory sees numbers like 32% and 34% . You think I was comparing 16% to 38% -------------- ?????Here is a fact --- Fundies (Evangel Funda's) earned a total of 880 billion last decade! They spent 8 billion on weight loss and 2 billion in tithing. You want me to believe they gave 28 b (or was it 22b ??) to benevolent aide world wide. What is that percentage ----- 22 b divided by 880 b?I AM a political conservative but I have the good sense to know when we are pretending to be gracious in giving and when, in fact, we are just fat, proud and selfish !!!!!JD
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From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:03:31 -0400
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Fw: For Kevin - Re Us and Aid
Kevin wrote: >> Which leaves out the fact that individual giviving >> adds another 22bn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! John wrote: > Iff that is true, the percentages would be > just about the same. So what?! LOL. Where did you learn math? ((16.3 + 22) / GNI) = (38.3/GNI) John says (38.3/GNI) is just about the same as (16.3/GNI) ????? Do you really think that 38.3 billion is just about the same as 16.3 billion? Now let's change GNI to per capita GNI by dividing by the population size to get the real individual sacrifice. Then you are going to have to argue that greater sacrifice means more to the poor than greater amount. That's like arguing that a dollar from a homeless man helps the needy more than a million dollars from a rich man! Good luck. Peace be with you. David Miller. ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
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