Excellent. You just saved me from having to say that!
I would add that all the Mainline Protestant churches made the same false decision toward the end of the nineteenth century. The American novelist Winston Churchill wrote a fascinating book about it, whose title currently slips my mind. It’s about a pastor who concludes that it would easier, and less shameful, for the government to support the poor, so he wouldn’t have to keep begging money from his rich parishioners, and make the poor suffer from their condescending help.
It goes back a pretty long way, and has been gathering momentum ever since, especially under FDR and LBJ.
Ah, my set of Churchill’s novels is in Maine. But I just found the title of that novel—”The Inside of the Cup.”