In a sense relying on government to provide charity is voluntary in that members of government are freely elected. People are quite receptive to have government assume their responsibilities both secular and parochial.
No one may legitimately call himself a mature "Christian" while voting to steal resources from a neighbor who doesn't want to share in any of the spoils from their theft, but whom they refuse to allow to opt out of them.
"...As it evolved, the Republican party came to represent masculine virtues such as competition, maintaining strict rules (“law and order”), standards over compassion (i.e., not changing the rules for members of liberal victim groups), delayed gratification, and respect for the ways of the father--that is, conserving what had been handed down by previous generations of fathers, and not just assuming in our adolescent hubris that we know better than they. .. The Democratic party, on the other hand, came to represent the realm of maternal nurturance--compassion over standards (i.e., racial quotas), idealization of the impulses (just as a mother is delighted in the instinctual play of her child), mercy over judgment (reduced prison sentences, criminal rights, etc.), cradle-to-grave welfare, a belief that we can seduce our enemies and do not have to defeat them with manly violence, and the notion that meaning, truth and values are all arbitrary and subject to change (which is true of the fluid world of emotions in general). ..." Friday, January 27, 2006 The Pathetic Last Children of Nietzsche's Pitiable Last Men. (The Last Men in the title is in reference to this post from last week. Friday, January 20, 2006 Pornographic Liberalism and The Last Men )