{"id":1005,"date":"2008-12-22T06:04:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T14:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2008-12-22T06:04:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T14:04:25","slug":"among-the-stingiest-of-the-stingy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/among-the-stingiest-of-the-stingy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Among the stingiest of the stingy&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/21\/opinion\/21kristof.html?scp=1&#038;sq=secular%20right&#038;st=cse\">Nicholas Kristof at the Times<\/a> is calling attention to those Arthur Brooks figures about how conservatives give more to charity than liberals, and religious persons give more than secular: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A study by Google found an even greater disproportion: average annual contributions reported by conservatives were almost double those of liberals. &#8230;It\u2019s true that religion is the essential reason conservatives give more, and religious liberals are as generous as religious conservatives. Among the stingiest of the stingy are secular conservatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To answer the obvious question: yes, if you exclude contributions to religious organizations, conservatives and liberals show a much more similar level of generosity. On the other hand, many of those contributions to religious organizations do wind up going to what by any reasonable definition is charity &#8212; feeding the hungry, bringing succor to disaster victims, and so forth &#8212; as opposed to, say, church administration or the distribution of religious texts. <\/p>\n<p>Something we at this site should feel uneasy about? Or are the numbers not telling the whole story? Or both?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Kristof at the Times is calling attention to those Arthur Brooks figures about how conservatives give more to charity than liberals, and religious persons give more than secular: A study by Google found an even greater disproportion: average annual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/among-the-stingiest-of-the-stingy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}