[Radioactive]

"When you failed to do it for the least of these here brethren of mine..you failed to do it for me" --J.C.

You can't give everything to everybody.

Jesus Christ would not aprove of giving money to people to build houses again in an area that is.... lets face it...prone to this activity.

Nothing in the Bible does it say "Blessed are the Stupid.

The government taking money from you and I and giving it away is not charity.

It is forced slavery of You and I.

If I want to give money to help these people...and I will......I want to do it...not have the government tell me that I must do it.

JC hated publicans...tax collectors. And the tax collectors are running this country into the ground with this supposed idea of charity...which has stolen trillions from hard working Americans in the name of.....WE MUST DO IT.....IT IS ONLY RIGHT.

See the great society.....and welfare.....and Social security...and so on and so forth.

[sinkspur]

Jesus Christ would not aprove of giving money to people to build houses again in an area that is.... lets face it...prone to this activity.

How do you know? Did He tell you?

JC hated publicans...tax collectors.

Actually, He didn't. He chose one as an apostle (Matthew), and used a parable to compare a humble publican to an arrogant Pharisee.

Jesus would wholeheartedly approve of anything we as individuals and as a country do to help these suffering people.

[Trust but Verify]

This area is 'prone to this activity'?

I must have gotten the wrong information. I heard this is unprecedented.

[Centurion2000]

Jesus Christ would not aprove of giving money to people to build houses again in an area that is.... lets face it...prone to this activity

To play Devil's Advocate for a moment, there has not been a tsunami in these places in well over living memory.

[antivenom]

Quite simply...

Charity begins at home - NOT at the revenue agent's desk!