Rich people depend on money because money is their God.  They don't let anything else get in their way.

I have personal knowledge of churches that sent teams and tractor trailers full of supplies down to Louisiana because of hurricane Katrina.  I know Christians who personally went down there on their vacation to help hammer and rebuild.

I dunno about this (both the biographer and the cousin have a lot of reasons to lie or to exaggerate the truth) but I did hear an interview Oprah once did where she talked about leaving the Christian faith because she once listened to a pastor talk about God being a jealous God, and she couldn't get her head around that. She wondered how a perfect, loving God could be prone to such petty human emotions as jealousy. So, instead of researching further, and making an effort to understand it, she went on her "own spiritual path." I don't think she hates Jesus. I think she just likes to believe what she chooses to, and then discards the rest, like a lot of people. To me, it's just denial and fear...fear that maybe there is an absolute truth and that maybe God is a jealous God, and all this time has been wasted on trying to find a god that's more suited to what she envisions a god should be. A god more like herself, I guess.
She may be wealthy and have quite a bit of influence and power, but she is no different from anyone else who can't see Jesus for who He is. No matter how many times she thinks she's finally found her answers, she'll still be looking, and that's really sad.                                                                                             

There are little things that Christians do all the time that go unnoticed.  Some of us work a little harder on the job and take care of things that other people don't care about.  One of my friends witnessed an accident and he stayed to give police his statement when he could have left like so many people could give excuses that they don't have to be involved.  When my neighbors called on me when they were in an accident, I went and helped them.  When the church needed my assistance and asked for volunteers, I went.

Some of our friends have adopted kids from other countries.  My wife took a job teaching for a school that doesn't pay a lot because it is a ministry.  What do people mean by we're not doing anything?

Are we all not valuable because we don't have a greater means that a millionaire or a billionaire?  Your government paid to repair Mosques around the world to improve its image in the world even though there is this alleged separation of Church and State and yet if there isn't enough money left over because the liberals helped themselves to the money in our pocket, it is somehow our fault that we can't do more?

Recognize the attacks for what it is.  The emergent church is trying to grow by attacking other Christians and churches in an effort to try to convince the unlearned that it isn't working so they can have your money.

@Chuckt - Well I personally applaud your good deeds, and I respect what you do. As would most people I think. But I think it depends on the person for the most part, some people will do that, some people won't. The people who don't initially, but do in the end are probably impressionable people, and any life-changing ideas might sway them to want to help others, whether it be a conversion to christ, or something of the sort. I'm most certainly not discrediting the church's ability to bring out the best in a lot of it's members. But I think that kindness and compassion doesn't need to be done in the name of christ, it should be done out of pure love for fellow humans. I think everyone can agree to that..

Oprah claims she's a christian and not a new-ageist(she resents even being called such), however, I don't get her, one day she has a pastor or gospel singer on her show, next day she has a scientologist. I don't know what to say about her these days.

@Fatal_Lightning@xanga - So true!