“I would make Jesus the God of the poor.”
Jesus as the God of the poor in spirit or the poor in material things?
And remember that ‘the meek’ meant those that were humble, not ‘wimps’ as is often thought today.
Exactly. The majority of Bible verses used by liberals to support the “poor” are referencing the “poor in spirit”, e.g. those who know the worth of their own spiritual efforts is nothing, or another way of saying those who are sincerely humble with regard to the value of their ability to do good things absent God.
I take poor in spirit as meaning one is supposed to...or happier to follow Christianity first money second
There’s no virtue in my mind in having no money. The people I’ve known who are not good managers of their own money can be nasty jealous of wealthy people without admitting it. That’s not virtue. That’s envy. Period
Where I’ve known people who are wealthy who are very generous. But tgey manage their finances.
A widow whose husband and herself has provided for her to live in her home well into her nineties has been much better able to care for the needy in her community than one who takes money for her mortgage from her children for instance. And i have specific people in mind
It’s tge same economics which BTW the catechism (misinterpreted or un read by many) says about giving to illegal aliens. It is misappropriation and depletion of resources