Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tblake@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas Blake) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Tithing Message-ID: Date: 5 Apr 91 08:53:35 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton Lines: 13 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu OFM writes (in part): >[...It would be unethical, and I am reasonably >sure illegal, for managers of a company to divert its resources for >religious purposes that they personally consider important. --clh] Didn't Mongomery Ward have a history of giving large portions of the profits to the church? Certainly IBM has been quite active in giving large gifts to education, and other charitable causes. This could be rationalized as public relations I suppose, but why would gifts to a church be any different? Tom Blake SUNY-Binghamton