[gate2wire]

"And, oh yes, eliminating poverty is a dominant message of the Bible, if that means anything to you."

I not an expert on the Bible, but where does it say this?

[small voice in the wilderness]

Yes, I'm curious, too, as Jesus said: "For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always." Matthew 26:11. Which tells me that poverty would always be with us, not eliminated.

[Dog Gone]

Mark 14:7

"For ye have the poor with you always,..."

It says exactly the opposite of what this writer alleges.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"I not an expert on the Bible, but where does it say this?"

He's just being snotty, because his stereotype of Conservatives is that they're all bible-thumpers.

The Bible generally refers to a "Poverty of the Spirit" and how to cure that, though it does instruct us to help others, but not give away the store while we do it. :)

[Reddy]

I can't recall any scripture that calls for the elimination of poverty.

"Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked." Psalm 37:l6

"Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked." Psalm 82:3,4

[holyscroller]

""And, oh yes, eliminating poverty is a dominant message of the Bible, if that means anything to you." I not an expert on the Bible, but where does it say this?"

It must be somewhere near the scriptures that say "The poor will always be among you" and "He that will not work, neither should he eat."