On the City Harvest Church and S$310 million

When this author first heard about how City Harvest Church was going to invest S$310 million in a Suntec stake, this author’s initial thoughts were:

1. Does God need all this money?



2. I don’t think God needs any part of this money. Why doesn’t the church (being a registered charity) donate the money to charity?

It appears that in these modern times, many religious institutions have immense sums of money sitting in their coffers, and they even go to financial institutions to invest all this money.

But… God (and by God, I mean any god of any religion) doesn’t need money. It’s only human beings who have a need for money. Why don’t these religions institutions donate all the money to charity? That seems to be a benevolent and godly use of the funds. God would have approved.