{"id":7982,"date":"2018-03-08T02:17:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T06:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7982"},"modified":"2018-03-08T11:14:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T15:14:45","slug":"matching-gift-is-unethical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7982","title":{"rendered":"Matching Gift is Unethical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was about to donate $100 to Alliance Defending Freedom, seeing some good work they do, via Janet Mefferd's platform, until I see this $2,000,000 matching gift.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/24ZdNa2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4795\/40685299731_0fe8a9aaa4_z.jpg\" alt=\"2018-03-08 Matching Gift Alliance Definding Freedom\" width=\"640\" height=\"519\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, I figure that obviously someone is willing to give $2,000,000 and it's not as under fund as they claim.<\/p>\n<p>What they should do, is just tell whoever it is to give his\/her $2mil and stop playing games. This game only fools the simpleton givers. I can find better use for my money else where, after all, I must distribute wisely what was given me, to something that can truly stand firm before God, even against mammon.<\/p>\n<p>Here an idea, can I also become a match gifter, I'll double anyone's giving up to $20. In fact, let's make it so that anyone can enroll as a match gifter with any amount. How that sounds is exactly how I think of matching gifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was about to donate $100 to Alliance Defending Freedom, seeing some good work they do, via Janet Mefferd's platform, until I see this $2,000,000 matching gift. So, I figure that obviously someone is willing to give $2,000,000 and it's &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=7982\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7982"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7986,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions\/7986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}