No, the agenda is to rail on churches and the claims of Republicans.
The creator of the "Mind Blowing Fact" used the data for individual churches, and applied that to church charities, as if the money for church charities only comes from the surplus off the books of individual churches. She's essentially making the case that, for example, Goodwill Industries is a sham and doesn't really provide any help to people because many of their retail stores lose money.
I don't think they would, and they certainly did not. They simply provided the data that was bastardized and misrepresented by the author of the piece, the immutable Randa Morris, social activist extraordinaire.
Three problems with that. One is, the article fails to do that. Two, you included it because you have the same agenda as Mandy. Three, the premise that churches can aid the poor not merely in just great numbers, but massive numbers, is a proven historical, and present, fact.
As hard as it is for some people to accept, it's a valid and actual verifiable premise. The budgets of American religious charities and schools and hospitals and other nonprofits all total up into the hundreds of billions, and oftentimes exceeds the welfare spending of the government. In fact, some of that money, from a Catholic charity, funded the program for and paid Obama's first community-organizer salary.
An individual church congregation's P&L Statement is wholly irrelevant to whether or not churches can take care of the poor. And religious conservatives is something that many liberals hate so passionately that they will make up facts and straw men and red herrings and fantasies to "prove" that churches can't do it.
In any case, the article wasn't something outlandish that those on the extreme political/religious right are presently involved in, it's about the outlandish claims and agenda that the left wingnuts are presently involved in.
