I’m going by God’s Word. Those on the left don’t accept the Bible’s authority but do want to quote select pieces of it, and distort its meaning to fit their agendas. But many on the right either do or don’t say they accept the Bible’s authority, and also want to go by only select pieces of it.
God isn’t political and He shows no partiality. He cares for those who are poor, and who suffer in poverty.
The left misuses the Bible but that doesn’t mean that the passages they quote on the poor aren’t there, and they don’t at least somewhat mean that it is both wrong to take monetary advantage of people, and not to show compassion towards the poor.
The Bible says that oppressing and defrauding the poor is reproaching one’s Maker. It talks about not harvesting all of a field so the poor might come by and eat from it. It speaks of giving alms, and an employer not holding back a worker’s wages. It speaks of God’s anger towards those who grind the face of the poor in the ground, and against those who are greedy for gain and having more and more.
Jesus said people who receive the Word nevertheless let “cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches” make them unfruitful, and he told the parable of the man whose wealth increased and he just wanted to build bigger and better barns for him to store it all in, but God took his soul, and the parable about the rich man and poor Lazarus, who just wanted a morsel to eat from the rich man, who suffered in Hell after his death, while Lazarus was taken to Abraham’s bosom. Jesus also said blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy, that the same measure you mete out, will be measured back to you, and that one should lay up their treasures in Heaven, where thieves can’t steal it and moths can’t destroy it.
James 4 says, “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.” While so many people today truly suffer without clean drinking water and the other essentials needed for life, many in America are jaded by all they have, and are caught up in a need to constantly pursue empty amusements, novelties and new “highs.” But that observation isn’t a recommendation of communism; far from it. The choices aren’t between communism, unchecked greed, or having no answers because the Bible has the answers on how Christians should learn to live and look at things.
“Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment (clothing) let us be therewith content,” (1 Timothy 6:5-8).
Let the Mexican Christians take care of their “Brothers.”