Posted on 09/25/2011 6:48:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Well said.
If this jackwad “reverend” is so holy, why doesn’t he suggest that the church pay real estate taxes on it’s church buildings, and income taxes?
Also, the rev should know the difference between “immigrants” and illegal alien invaders.
Tea Party = compassion for the tax payer.
In 1796, Rep. William Giles of Virginia condemned a relief measure for fire victims, saying that Congress didn't have a right to "attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require." A couple of years earlier, James Madison, the father of our constitution, irate over a $15,000 congressional appropriation to assist some French refugees, said, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
Geez, these people can't make up their minds.
This may be wandering from the point a bit but I disagree that charity is solely a religious function. I give to some charities that are neither religious nor governmental in nature. I agree that charity to the poor is a Christian duty but that doesn’t mean all charity has to be through religious groups any more than it has to be through government welfare, as the left would have us believe.
card802
December 06, 2010 at 7:18AM
Rev. Willcox, I think you should stick to preaching what you’re supposed to know, and that is scripture. Leave the preaching about what business “should” do as their patriotic duty at home and stop indoctrinating more of your flock.
And as far as every teacher, preacher and celebrity “telling it like it is”....you are all as clueless as our president who doesn’t need any help from the GOP or the Tea Party to smear his public image, he’s doing a fine job all by himself.
http://www.mlive.com/opinion/muskegon/index.ssf/2010/12/letters_record_profits_record.html
Communists are plenty “compassionate” with “Tea Partiers” money.
I wasn’t as clear as I should have been. While charity is definitely a religious function, it is not solely limited to religious organizations as a means to dispense it. Just as one need not be religious to be charitable. (Witness charitable giving by atheists/agnostics.) Regardless of the channel administered, or the contributor, I believe it’s not the role of government to either administer or contribute to it.
Every penny government bureaucrats take from me to redistribute as they see fit is a penny less that I can redistribute as I see fit.
W Brewster Willcox
retired at First Congregational Church United Church of Christ, Muskegon
Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area Religious Institutions
Past
Interim Ministry Specialist, retired at First Congregational United Church of Christ, Muskegon, MI
Education
Yale University Divinity School
Wilcox said Muslims have also gotten a bad rap in the black community, often because their faith is associated with that terrorists around the world.
“They get painted with a wide brush,” Wilcox said. He is welcoming Shabazz (Black Panther) Into his church in part to show “we can work with each other and ... and bring about some unity.
This is a natural death that this man has chosen.
His wishes should be respected.
You say he changed his mind? Well, then he can do something about it. Unlike liberals who deny food and water to the helpless and refuse at gun point if necessary to allow anyone to help I am quite willing to allow any one, liberal or Conservative to help. All he has to do is ask.
What I am not willing to do is force anyone at gun point to subsidize his care. That is not compassion, that is theft.
My answer to the card reader would have been, "Sir, are you willing to take him into your home and care for him? If not why are you forcing me to do so?"
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