How I got schooled by Scrooge and Antonin Scalia

http://aleteia.org ^ | 12/26/2016 | Todd Worner

[heterosupremacist]

"I already contributed, it’s someone else’s turn. I know they have needs, but so do I. Didn’t I already give enough? Let me pass the plate, the hat, the envelope to the next person."

Today, I caught part of a speech given by the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia that spoke a little to this:

"“[Christ’s] message was not the need to eliminate hunger or misery or misfortune, but rather the need for each individual to love and help the hungry, the miserable, and the unfortunate. To the extent that the State takes upon itself one of the corporal works of mercy that could and would have been undertaken privately, it deprives individuals of an opportunity for sanctification and deprives the Body of Christ of an occasion for the interchange of love among its members. I wonder to what extent the decimation of women’s religious orders throughout the West is attributable to the governmentalization of charity.

Consider how many orphanages, hospitals, schools and homes for the elderly used to be provided by orders of nuns. They’re almost all gone – as are the nuns who ran them. The State now provides or pays for these services through salaried social workers. Even purely individual charity must surely have been affected.

‘What need for me to give a beggar a handout? Do I not pay taxes for government food stamps and municipally run shelters and soup kitchens?

The man asking me for a dollar probably wants it for liquor!’ There is, of course, neither love nor merit in the taxes I pay for those services. I pay them because I have to… The transformation of charity into legal entitlement has produced donors without love and recipients without gratitude.”

[ClearCase_guy]

I absolutely believe that government charity has a huge detrimental effect on society. We need churches, neighborhood groups and benevolent societies to organize free citizens and provide real outreach and charity. The central role played by government bureaucrats today just convinces most people that they don’t need to care — It’s under control, right?

[Stanwood_Dave]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quote FROM HIS State of the Union 1935

http://www.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/fr32/speeches/su35fdr.htm

Funny how they omitted this FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) quote from the media:

Approximate 26th Paragraph of his speech

{FDR stands for Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 32nd POTUS, cousin of the real President Roosevelt, Theodore (Teddy) 26th POTUS.}

“The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole our relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America. Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers.

The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief.”

For those who may not know, the word "relief" as used above, would be replaced today 2016-7, with the word "welfare."

[antidisestablishment]

The church abdicated her responsibility and has conspired with the government to force “charity” through coercion. Abandoning all religious ideology is a small price to pay for a steady flow of money. Churches sold their flocks willingly for 501C3 status. If you read the law, it has nothing to do with tax exempt status, and everything with protecting church officials.

The idea of separating church and state was never intended to protect the state. Churches are just as susceptible to corruption as any entity run by men.

[Nea Wood]

True, plus charities usually require responsibility from the recipient, at least eventually. With government welfare, you have three, four generations of families on the dole.

[To Hell With Poverty]

So true. Almost makes me want to bring back the WPA. It couldn’t have been worse than how we “help” the poor and unemployed now.