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Now people complain about taxes and government control but spout utter garbage whenever the Catholic Church says Catholics should get back to what they were doing when Christian charity helped keep government in check. It's not just the Catholic Church, either, any church that would start to advocate the sort of network the YMCA/YWCA once was would be similarly attacked.

With the level of taxation and destruction of intact families that is impossible at this point.

The collapse is coming, and since the strong centralized government destroyed all the smaller institutions below it people are going to have nothing. No family, no charities, no freedom.

All of this because the Churches spent the last 100 years urging its flock to commit the sins of theft and envy.

While they may have materially helped the poor they destroyed the souls of the poor. Single motherhood, bastardy, and irresponsibility are subsidized while good behavior is punished.

The slick politicians that were willing to do the stealing were also the same ones who forced abortion and gay marriage on the culture..

When these Social Justice and Liberation Theology Christians meet there maker do you think "We only wanted to help the poor" is going to be sufficient excuse for the total destruction of society they are responsible for?

"All of this because the Churches spent the last 100 years urging its flock to commit the sins of theft and envy."

"Shrewd" money management advisers instructed millions of people on how to move their parents assets around so that as soon as they hit 65 their parents would be eligible for every possible benefit since, on paper, they were all but indigent. Was that "Churches" undermining society?

Millions of people who had no need for assistance made sure their kids got Pell grants so the kids would have more spending money while in college. Was that "Churches" undermining society?

Millions of people who complain about big government and high taxes spent the past fifty years supporting their "good democrat" every election because their "good democrat" brought home the pork to pay for local projects with Federal funds. Was that "Churches" undermining society?

That's just three examples out of dozens of similar examples of the real problem and they're all individual decisions not based on what "Churches" teach and not based on a Christian view of responsibility, family, and charity.

Blaming "Churches" is just another cop out to avoid looking in the mirror.