Originally posted by @tom-wolsey
And finally you come out with it. "Christians like me," "advocate against government providing that help."
There is more to it than that and you know it. The government does provide help to those who truly need it, as do local churches and other nonprofit organizations, and no Christians are complaining. What Christians have every right to voice ou ...[text shortened]... r pennies on the dollar; and dangling those pennies in front of citizens as extortion for votes.
<<And finally you come out with it. "Christians like me," "advocate against government providing that help." >>
That's right: Christians like you do "advocate against government providing that help." And you continue to advocate against it.
<<The government does provide help to those who truly need it, as do local churches and other nonprofit organizations, and no Christians are complaining.>>
Yet there are still many who do without adequate food, clothing, shelter and / or health care and so on. As I pointed out, it's not enough. If it were, everyone would be have them.
<<What Christians have every right to voice our opinion on, is the government forcibly taking an inordinate amount of
money out of our pockets; filtering it through a giant, bloated, inefficient bureaucracy; netting the actual poor pennies on the dollar; and dangling those pennies in front of citizens as extortion for votes.>>
Now you've gotten to the heart of it. It's about love of mammon.
As I said earlier:
Anyone with true compassion and love for his neighbor cares not about the reasons their neighbor needs help, but only that they need help.
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
For the most part, Christianity has little to do with the gospel preached by Jesus during His ministry. The fruits of the self-serving beliefs that underpin Christianity are Christians whose world-view is also self-serving.