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Now go tip someone.

I'd prefer to feed the hungry, say someplace like Haiti?

Took this photo down there. Most of the people working down there on the "Wells of Salvation" project are the "fundies" you were bad-mouthing. They reduced the infant mortality rate by 1/3 assisting the locals drill wells for clean drinking water. I'm nobody special, and a pretty bad Christian, but the "fundies" are the ones I find when I get to the places that ain't fun to be in, not the social crusaders who have abandoned the gospel.

Glad to hear you fundies are acting in conformity with the Gospel of Christ and inconsistently with your apocalyptic doomsday'ism! The Wells of Salvation is a wonderful project. In my area the PCUSA churches - mainline libs which you implicitly condemned - are active in sending mission groups on clean water projects, building rainwater collection systems due to ground water contamination in Haiti, school building and long-term support, sharing Christ's good news in word and deed. Beyond that of course many folks of faith, conservative and liberal alike, are active in addressing not just the symptoms of poverty but poverty's causes.

Haiti and theological debates aside, it doesn't negate the plight of the working poor and the poor in general in the United States. I waitered in college and seminary, along with factory work and a number of other jobs. Often - though that is surely a generalization - someone waiting tables is holding that job for a reason, options are often as limited as their income. My point is simply that I observed during my restaurant days and since that many Christians --- not all --- who wear their faith on their sleeve, hit the steak house or Red Lobster, et. al, after church in masse - strutting in their Sunday finery - act like ****** (I'll asterisk it for those of delicate sensibilities) and demand top notch service then leave pittance or nothing for a hard-working, often low income, table waiter. Not a great testimonial to the unchurched & the very sort of hypocrisy that the prophets condemned in the Hebrew Scriptures and that Jesus and several of the NT writers spoke and wrote against as well.