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4hodmt comments on Why You Should Be Public About Your Good Deeds - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 30 December 2015 04:06AM

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Comment author: 4hodmt 31 December 2015 10:01:54PM 0 points [-]

Probably because rich people have most to lose if they're expected to be charitable, and rich people controlled what got published in the Bible. If giving is supposed to be secret then who can prove they're giving nothing?