Charity and religious organisations are not wealth-generating engines

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A reader of Straits Times, Mr Paul Chan has written to the forum stating "It can't be about top dollar for top talent". What prompted him to write was the special report, 'Medical charities the best paymasters' (March 30), stating pay brackets of up to $300,000 for heads of medical charities and up to $550,000 for chiefs of large religious groups.

This bring to mind the so called mega churches whose self proclaimed pastor is paying themselves handsome salary in the name of God. Well, I am not against paying pastor and church workers well but to the extend of living in luxury of semi-D and conti cars is far too much.

Read about what the buddhist says about paying clergy here.

The reason ? "Charity and religious organisations are not wealth-generating engines. It is against the principle of charity and spirit of religion if office-holders reward themselves excessively from donated funds meant for targeted beneficiaries". So where does your "tithes" goes to?

And one of the mega church even goes to the extend of using donations to build business and property investment. It is ok to build a church for worship purposes but it is another thing to risk funds that should go to helping the needy into investments. Returns are likely to be "boosted" about and reason why the pastors should be paid even more....

So let's hope all these people can wake up and if you are one of such people's supporter, please do reflect.

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