Dear editor,
I am absolutely sick of hearing how many so-called churches and ministers of religion routinely accept tithes (money donations) from elderly, vulnerable, often dementia-stricken, poor people who have so little they can hardly replace their shoes if they need to, but still want to offer a tithe.
Is it not the duty of these so-called ministers and holy people to tell these elderly folk that they are NOT obligated at their stage in life to give tithe?
I know of one woman in her 80s or 90s, living on nothing but a pension and the goodwill of a few family and friends who sometimes struggle to meet her needs, and there a people from the “church” coming to accept tithe from her.
Do they have no shame? And she, in her slavish devotion to tithing, is happily surrendering the pension money she should be using to feed herself.
Do these people have no shame at all? Many of these elderly people grew up in a time when they were brainwashed to believe that if they did not give the church their money, God would kill them with lightning.
There ought to be a law against religious organisations accepting tithes or encouraging tithing when it comes to low-income elders in society.
Shameful. And they wonder why churches are empty. Plain wickedness.
Sincerely,
A God-fearing prostitute on Popeshead Street
