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Originally Posted by Cat Turd Collector
There is an implicit (or sometimes outright explicit) expectation that church-goers plug in and become part of that community, rather than just "warm the pews" and I think THAT is what people are shying away from, not the expectation of financially supporting the church.
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I think it depends on the specific type of church. The churches I grew up in were openly suspicious of "secular entanglements" and really expected the community to join them, not the inverse. God was the answer to everything, and to access god you had to join our group. You could not hope to solve the world's problems by secular methods. We seriously thought that getting right with god was the only real and lasting solution to ANY human problem. And of course we had our own ideas about what getting right with god involved / meant.
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