Grand Prize Winner of the 2011 Project Reason Video Contest
Mega-churches have used religion as fund-raising tool for too long. They shower their followers in sanctimonious platitudes, then clamor for their cash. This video encourages a new definition of tithing by giving to causes with accountability.
CREDITS
Created by Justin Wilson & Tony Wann
Motion Graphics by Tony Wann
Live Action/Edit/Sound Design by Justin Wilson
Music: Good Old Neon
“One Never Says Verbal When One Means Oral”
licensed under a Sampling Plus License
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Good_Old_Neon
Stills licensed from iStockphoto LP or shot by us
Sources:
Senator Grassley Senate Finance Committee files
Review of Media-Based Ministries – January 6, 2011
– http://taxdollars.ocregister.com/files/2011/01/SFC-Staff-Memo-to-Grassley-re-Ministries-01-06-11-FINAL.pdf
Forbes – America’s Biggest Megachurches – June 26, 2009
– http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/26/americas-biggest-megachurches-business-megachurches.html
USA Today – View of God can predict values, politics – Nov. 12, 2006
– http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2006-09-11-religion-survey_x.htm
Special thanks to our on-screen talent: Sierra Sintic, Justin Lochlear, Artie Pena, James Rayburn, Matt Pittman, David Slack