Re: Are synogogue dues charity?
Bill Bickel (bbickel@cris.com)
Thu, 31 Oct 1996 19:08:16 -0500
Len613@aol.com writes:
>In the days of the First and Second Commonwealths the ten-percent tithe was
>the equivalent of a tax. There were no other taxes then whereas now we pay
>over 25 percent of our income in taxes
But the comparison's not really valid, because our government is
secular, and the Israel's government during Biblical times was decidedly
not.
Bill Bickel