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To: hellbender

Your interpretation of the bible may be correct, but priests and ministers of different branches of Christianity promote forced charity via big government. Popes John and Benedict have implicitedly condemned capitalism as have bishops of other branches of Christianity. A number of years ago I wrote a letters to members of the US hierarchy of the Catholic church after they issued statements critical of US economic policies stating they should keep their noses out of economic matters unless they willing to subject their theologic matters to politics.


24 posted on 12/08/2007 8:02:57 AM PST by monocle
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To: monocle

It’s not my interpretation of the Bible; it’s what the text says! I know that many mainstream churches have gone far from Biblical Christianity and into secular socialism. I once visited a Methodist church where the young female preacher told the congregation to vote for candidates and programs which helped the poor. I never went back there, because I knew that for a Christian to help people in need is supposed to be an individual, uncoerced act, or perhaps one performed collectively through the Church. It is not something to be delegated to the government. The whole Christian worldview is based on the idea that God wants love, and wants us to love our fellows, and love can never be coerced. There are innumerable private and religious charities which Christians can choose from; there is no need for govt. charity at all if the Church does its job in the world, and if govt. quit taking money for non-Constitutional “services,” the private sector would have much more money to use.


31 posted on 12/09/2007 2:33:14 PM PST by hellbender
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