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Hoping to make fast friends: Officials signing on to Feed America Day

See now that's how it's supposed to be.Make sure people don't starve - die. But for some reason if you put the wrong national leaers names in there and then get a couple right wing newsreaders in there this type of program would just be another socialist program designed to ease Americans into following the facist communist state.

I've been dissapointed by supposed church members ease in being propagandized away from christian principals.

I think something like Feeding America Day is absolutely wonderful. We have been blessed and should give all we can to help others. The difference between this and what is happening in our government right now is that it is your choice to give to a charitable organization. That is how it should be. Our government is getting bigger and bigger and forcing us to be "charitable." Forcing us to pay for someone else's health care. Forcing us to pay for someone else's house. I would rather see a need and meet it. Find a charitable organization I believe in and donate to it. If 20 percent of what I made weren't going to the government I'd have a lot more money to give to people and causes like that. But I guess we can't count on our society to do the right thing, so we have to depend on the government to make us do the right thing.

THE CHURCH does more than ALL churches together to help people in time of need. their trucks arrive at disasters before ANY others do. Thank you & thank THE CHURCH.

You need to get out of Utah! Many other churches are very charitable and some do much more than we do. They are simply not a single entity like the LDS church. Many help out others not of their faith right in their own communicties. They are smaller community churches who give $100-200k per year or more to local charities like homeless shelters, food banks, women's shelters, etc. They offer professional marriage counseling, abuse counseling, help with rent and utilities or medicine. And they don't restrict their giving to those who are active in their congregations.

This is not to put down what the LDS church does. The church does great things around the world that these smaller organizations simply do not have the global reach or resources to address. But don't knock the charitable giving of others.

Let's be Christians and not put others down by putting ourselves on a pedistal and patting ourselves on the back.