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.
A terrible, terrible fallacy. Christian giving underscores gospel, gospel, gospel. Thinking like this already represents giving up the gospel ship.