Why is Sarah Palin ripping off Jesus?

The McCain-Palin campaign released the last two years of Sarah Palin’s taxes. The documents show that Sarah and the First Dude had a gross income of $166,080 in 2007. They donated $2,500 to charity that year and also made a “non-cash” donation to the Salvation Army of junk supposedly worth $825.

That totals out to be a whopping $3,325 they donated to charity. In other words, they donated roughly 2% of their earnings to charity.

What I find strange about this is that Sarah and Todd Palin are Assembly of God Pentecostal Christians. The Assembly of God teaches that you owe God 10% of your gross income to him. You pay this in the form of a tithe. As a member of the Assembly of God, you are required to both tithe and make other offerings to your church. The tithe is a minimum requirement while the offering is a voluntary amount of money that you give on your own. You give what you feel the Lord wants you to give.

Growing up in an Assembly of God church, I cannot count how many times I heard the pastor preach about the importance of paying your tithes and offerings. It was a regular Sunday morning topic. I probably heard more sermons pertaining to tithing and making offerings then any other single topic in the 19 years I attended the Assembly of God church.

Finding out that Sarah Palin and her husband gave only 2% of their earnings and not the bare minimum of 10% makes me wonder just how serious they are about their religious convictions. Being that she is constantly lying about things and she has repeatedly gone out of her way to be vindictive to those she doesn’t like, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

http://bentcorner.com/2008/10/why-is-sarah-palin-ripping-off-jesus/

It seems like they wouldn't list it, as it's not tax deductible.

Well, they can--no deduction is obligatory.

Of course, everybody involved--her old church, her new church, and herself--say she stopped being an Assembly of God member in 2002, although she still has good relations there (note that various politicians, dem and repub, go to a variety of churches, and many give speeches there while campaigning).

Nobody's said what the Wasilla Bible Church's tithing doctrine is, and those are the ones that, presumably, she should be held to. She didn't release tax returns for 2001, so it's hard to know if she was a loyal Assembly of God member, disaffected at the time, or simply not a good member.