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So, I think you just said that the average Christian does X, but doesn't do X, and therefore I should do X. I can't quite figure out if there's a typo in there somewhere, or whether I'm just misunderstanding radically.
In any case, I agree with you that contributing resources to causes I support and training myself to understand them better and support them more effectively, and socializing with other supporters are all good things to spend some resources on.
Incidentally, most of the Christians I know who do this in their capacities as Christians are not actually devoting those efforts to converting the world to Christianity, but rather to things like aiding the needy. Then again, the Christians I know well enough to know how they practice their religion are a pretty self-selecting bunch, and generalizing from them probably isn't safe.
You're right, thanks, the previous wording was confusing. I removed the paragraph that said "I suspect that the average christian actually gives significantly less than 10% of their income to the church, and doesn't go to church every sunday, but I haven't actually looked up the statistics yet." The point of that paragraph was that I'm admitting that I'm probably overestimating the contributions of the average christian.