To: gate2wire; Patrick1
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.
To: small voice in the wilderness
Exact quote I was thinking of.
To: 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.So we should just give up, because the Bible says so? Rather, you say that the Bible says so...
46 posted on
02/27/2006 3:27:16 PM PST by
cryptical
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To: small voice in the wilderness
53 posted on
02/27/2006 3:35:02 PM PST by
Reddy
To: 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. Jesus was right. Poor is a relative term. But it should be noted that in the United States the living standard of the poor keeps rising.
83 posted on
02/27/2006 5:10:09 PM PST by
Moonman62
(Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
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