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To: usnret99
The leftest definitely not going to like this... I Love it. Validates what I have read in the Bible....

Proverbs 21:13
If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered.

Proverbs 28:27
He who gives to the poor will lack nothing, but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses.

Luke 14:13
But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

16 posted on 04/27/2007 8:25:37 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: Jorge
Yes, the scriptures tell us to be kind to the poor. But I think it is implied you are to use your own resources to do so.

From Second Samuel Chapter 12 (NIV):

1 The LORD sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, "There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor.

2 The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle,

3 but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.

4 "Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him."

5 David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, "As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

6 He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity."

7 Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man!...

Would not this apply to rich congressman and senators who make themselves out to be generous...but use the money of those with less to do so?

31 posted on 04/27/2007 10:02:52 PM PDT by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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To: Jorge
Proverbs 21:13 If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered. Proverbs 28:27 He who gives to the poor will lack nothing, but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses. Luke 14:13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

Jorge... I see God telling me to do these things..I do not see where God is telling me to have the Goverment do it by force others to do it for me...

32 posted on 04/27/2007 10:25:35 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Al-Qaidacrats =A new political party combining the anti American left and the anti Semite right)
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