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Well, that certainly beats "steal your neighbor's money and give it to the poor." I can just imagine Jesus teaching the rich man that, can't you?
Are Dems opposed to charities or something? You do know that if you donate to charities you get to take it off your taxes? Plus there's less bureaucracy and the money is used better.
Are Dems opposed to charities or something? You do know that if you donate to charities you get to take it off your taxes? Plus there's less bureaucracy and the money is used better.
I've been repeatedly called Democrat, commie, and my mind's abilities have been questioned. Now you know how I feel. 
I'd like to clarify something. The Bible does support the idea of welfare (not gleaning the crops to the edge of your field in order for the poor to pick them later). But also with that is the ideal of hard work. The owner of the field doesn't pick the crops and drop them in the poor's hands. I think the welfare system definitely needs to be reformed. Too much corruption in it, trading food stamps for tobacco and alcohol. Not having to work to get it, etc.
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Charity is never based on you or me giving someone anything that we take from someone else ... Charity is based on me or you sharing what God has given to us in the principal of bringing glory to God and His mercy. Nothing about welfare in America is biblical in the true sense of Christ inspired charity.
If someone wants to make a case for social welfare out of their own compassion ...then let them, but don't try to use the bible to justify it.
If someone wants to make a case for social welfare out of their own compassion ...then let them, but don't try to use the bible to justify it.
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Wasn't it a bunch of non-working bums (harlots, thieves), illegals (outcasts, lepers, possessed with demons) and street thugs (barbarians, crooked tax collectors, Sons of Thunder, James & John) who became Christ's devoted followers?
Wasn't it a bunch of non-working bums (harlots, thieves), illegals (outcasts, lepers, possessed with demons) and street thugs (barbarians, crooked tax collectors, Sons of Thunder, James & John) who became Christ's devoted followers?
I think a lot of things in America could be done better. No welfare unless you work. If you supposedly can't work because of some weird psychological condition, then you buy medication. If there is no medication to help you cope, then you get covered by a charity that provides for your basic needs.
No more giving cans of food to people with large families that throw the food away because they don't like it or think that they can get marijuana or tobacco for it. That's not to say all people or most people on welfare are like this. But there is room for improvement to eliminate these abuses.
Wasn't it a bunch of non-working bums (harlots, thieves), illegals (outcasts, lepers, possessed with demons) and street thugs (barbarians, crooked tax collectors, Sons of Thunder, James & John) who became Christ's devoted followers?
The answer is YES.
And great retribution was promised to the wealthy who would not give all they had to the poor. For those who call themselves Christian but who support Trump, they will have their day of reckoning on the Judgment Day.