Posted by:
CrispingPin
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Date: March 04, 2018 07:12PM
I will be retiring in a few months. The only reason I can retire now is that I quit paying tithing in time.
Roughly a decade ago, certain doubts that I had repressed for many years were getting too hard to ignore. My problems were not with the LDS church, per se, but I found it increasingly difficult to accept the nature of God as taught in Abrahamic religions. I found the reality of, or need for, a savior to be (in a word) wrong. I slowly reduced my involvement with TSCC, as I felt disingenuous (if not dishonest) about affiliating with any religion. Before long, I stopped paying tithing, but for a while, I paid a generous fast offering. I believed, at the time, that fast offerings actually were used for those in need.
About a year after I stopped giving TSCC any money, I got a huge raise. I decided to put the great majority of my increase into 401(k) and other retirement savings. Now I’m able to retire while I still have good enough health to enjoy thigs for a while. I have a couple of fairly significant health issues and if I had continued to pay tithing, I might have needed to continue to work until I was physically unable to do so.
I testify of the blessings of not paying tithing.