So I guess people are just blowing smoke when they say you can cut social programs and the churches will take up the slack through charity.
The church did take up the slack. The bought the bums a bus ticket to a better place for them. Better climate, the local government enjoys them, and they get outta their box, see a little bit of Texas out the bus window.
But you sound nice, send me an address and I bet we could send a few your way.
The church DID pick up the slack. They used ministry money, not taxpayer funds, to buy the bus tickets. The guy is happy, both cities are happy. It was a win-win-win all the way around.
Seems to me the church is taking up the slack.
Although I’d have sent them to Martha’s Vineyard or Chapaqua myself.
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If one replaces social programs with church programs then they are really just shifting the hand outs. Today’s social gospel was introduced in the early 20th century and is an aberration of scripture. The church charity never was meant to support lazy or indifferent people but only those truly in need and then only to give them a helping hand-not a color TV.