Talk:Alms

message: The verse quoted should probably not be there, as it is not talking about almsgiving specifically. It is talking about "practicing righteousness," found in a more literal translation. Is there any verse from the Gospels that commands almsgiving? Tim Long 01:13, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Christianity

message: Alms in British English refers to an offering of money given to the poor (eg Matthew 6:4; Strong's G1654) "mercy, pity". Alms in recent times in Britain are usually associated with nobles and royalty and often with specific occasions such as a patron saints day, alms to me is an archaic term for what we would now call charitable giving. Tithe in distinction refers to a gift of a tenth part (eg Luke 11:42; Strong's G586) which for a modern Christian is a gift of 10% (or a proportion at least) of one's income for the running of the Church (which means corporate acts of charity, other gospel based activities and menial things such as communal administration, payment of workers, maintenance of properties, etc.). There is a confusion in this section and I don't think that enough differentiation is made. I would strongly dispute that the offering at a CoE service is a collection of alms for dispensation, it is a predominantly a collection of tithes, alms-giving is usually handled separately (often with names such as "an Appeal for the people of Eritrea" or whatever). Any other comments? Pbhj (talk) 02:07, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Alms and Tithe are quite distinct

message: This paragraph,
"This indicates that we should give, for as god loves us so should we love the very least person, even if they do wrong against us or are offensive to us in any way, we should still love them and show compassion to them. This is what the Lord God expects."
while it is a kind and worthy sentiment, appears to be the author's opinion.  Kidigus (talk) 23:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What the Lord God expects

message: Under "Islamic" heading the second entry "Gifting alms for the poor, how much?" links to a single irrelevant page. No past page found in The Archive. Consider deletion? 202.72.180.207 (talk) 07:47, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The link might have been spam from the get-go.  In fact, the contributions to the article Gift economy by the same user who inserted this external link here (User: Tikimoped, whose primary interest appears to be things tiki-bar-related) were immediately removed as such.  Thus, I'll go ahead and delete this link momentarily.  User:202.72.180.207, thanks for flagging this.  If anyone believes that my resultant change is in error and/or my assessment is inappropriate please feel free to revert/correct with an explanation.  Best wishes, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 18:28, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: External Links

message: Recently a very poorly formatted addition was made under the heading of "== HINDUISM ==" (where the equal signs are part of the literal sectional title).  In addition to being poorly edited (e.g, the first words are literally, "Bold text," and much of the initial text is in all capital letters), this text seems to have been cut and pasted from a blog as evidenced by text strings such as "Feb 9 2008 | Views 8 | Comments (0) Leave a Comment Tags."  Based on this assessment, a Google search was done for text from this newly inserted material and it was found that this text was cut-and-pasted from http://santhemant.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/02/give-me-only-this-o-rama-swami-samarth-ramdas.htm. At the bottom of this source page it states "© santhemant., all rights reserved.  Page protected by COPYSCAPE. DO NOT COPY."  This copyright appears to be antithetical to Wikipedia's GFDL-compatibility requirement and thus, if for no other reason, this text needs to be deleted (reverted).
I truly regret reverting such material since (a) this article is in serious need of a section on Hinduism, and (b) the cut-and-pasted text is compelling in its devotional earnestness.  If the above text can be shown to not be in violation of WP's GFDL-compatibility requirement (and to be pertinent to the topic of "alms," e.g., vs. "devotion"), let's restore the text (undo my undo) and I'd be happy to help fix up the text for WP presentation (e.g., it appears that there's a need for a side-by-side Sanskrit-English poem translation which likely could be better represented in an HTML table). Alternately, if anyone else could add material appropriate to Hindu scriptures and practices related to Alms that too would be greatly appreciated. 
Please forgive me if I error in this and even if I do not.
Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 03:49, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Santhemant - thank you so much for the additional interesting information.  Best wishes, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 06:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recently added "Hinduism" section from "all rights reserved" material at <nowiki>http://santhemant.sulekha.com/</nowiki> 

message: Judaism is by far the smallest section and doesn't have any references.  Does anyone have any information to add here to make it a well-rounded article? Leefkrust22 (talk) 05:18, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Judaism 

message: In case something here could be used for verification or expansion of the article. --Ronz (talk) 16:17, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: External links moved to talk

message: Does this article still require the maintenance template from 2021?  Could it be replaced by section and/or inline templates? WeyerStudentOfAgrippa (talk) 15:18, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional citations template 

message: The Christian section currently says:
"Giving should be out of love and not out of duty:He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'
—  Mathew 25:45"This quote seems to contradict the claim it's supposedly supporting. In context the quote says neglecting to give will lead to one to "go away into eternal punishment" Mathew 25:46 (and 25:41) If that doesn't imply a serious duty I don't know what does. 
And in context the passage in context doesn't mention so I don't see why this quote follows the claim "Giving should be out of love and not out of duty" but I am not a Christian and please correct me if I'm wrong. Dovmiester (talk) 13:21, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discrepancy in Christian section?