The point I hope to make clear is that these secular government schemes are but filling a vacuum left when Christians leave their faith behind. Oh, if churches had the reputation for feeding the hungry that our modern food stamps do, for example. The gospel would become starkly obvious as the cause of it. Its evangelism would be feeding mouths and filling stomachs.
Churches leaving vacuums because of flaccid faith are part of the picture. Human existence itself has a leftward side as well as a rightward side. What’s going to fill those sides depends on human choice.
Why do you say ‘my side’?
Anyway it is the chicken or the egg to some extent.
The more gov’t ‘gives’ the less people of God feel they have to
and the more they need what they have left to survive.
God loves a cheerful giver.
Jesus pointed out that caesars name on the coin didn’t mean the metal in it belonged to him.
Confusion, confusion - the majority on this site generally refer to this as Faith and Evil. The Catholic Church has had its share of human detritus as Popes. We are in a negative situation with this pope.
1517 Martin Luther - maybe it is time for another