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# SecureGive
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/5073/
- Published: 2006-10-02T06:14:39.000Z
- Updated: 2006-10-02T06:14:39.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

The megachurches have come up with a new way to make money: ATMs for giving. [*LA Times* link](http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-holyatm28sep28,0,6671307,full.story?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

> It was one of Stevens Creek's three "Giving Kiosks": a sleek black pedestal topped with a computer screen, numeric keypad and magnetic-strip reader. Prompted by the on-screen instructions, Marshall performed a ritual more common in quickie marts than a house of God: He pulled out a bank card, swiped it and punched in some numbers.

> The machine spat out a receipt. Marshall's $400 donation was routed to church coffers before he had found his seat for evening worship.

It certainly doesn't feel right, but I don't know why. Catering to America's fast and loose materialism? Maybe. Making a place of holiness too much like the rest of the world? Perhaps. Just another money-making scheme by one of those annoying mega-churches? Yup.