'Some things are better than money': The religious diner who left a REAL tip for the waiter

A crisp $10 note left by a diner is a welcome sight for any server.



But when one waiter went to pick up one such note left tucked under a customer's plate recently, he was outraged to find it was not cash but instead a 'real tip' on a bogus $10 note.



'Some things are better than money' it said on the back, 'like your eternal salvation that was brought and paid for by Jesus going to the cross.'

Cheap: The waiter, who makes $2.65 basic pay an hour, did not take well to getting the 'advice' saying 'I have never been more atheist'

The waiter, who makes $2.65 basic pay an hour, did not take well to getting the 'advice' and posted photographs of the scene to the social newspaper Reddit.

In it he added: 'P.S. I have never been more atheist.'



In the past waiters have complained about the promotion of fake scripture-laden bills as tips on the 'Friendly Atheist' blog, according to Aol Money and Finance.

The phony bills appeared as far back as the summer of 2006, at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Greensboro, N.C.



The idea that Christians are poor tippers apparently has been whispered in service circles for a long time.

Many waiters try not work Sunday brunch, so as to avoid notoriously stingy churchgoers, claims Justin Wise, the director of a Lutheran ministry in Des Moines, Iowa, reports Aol Money and Finance.



'Christians don't tip very well,' he wrote for The Lutheran magazine in January 2009. "As a matter of fact, we're pretty cheap.

' What makes this worse is that we paint 'cheap' with a religious-sounding veneer and call it 'being a good steward.'