I’m reasonably certain the command is for the believer to care for the poor and those less fortunate, not for them to abdicate responsibility to the government.
Last I checked, the U.S. government was primarily made up of professed Christians. So shouldn’t they be using their positions to care for the poor and those less fortunate?
Based on their theology, no, they should be using portons of their salaries to take care of those individuals.
I’ve read the New Testament and I don’t remember where it says that the only way that the poor should be helped is by Christians giving them money from their salaries. Can you point it out to me please?
That would be true if those same people weren’t using it as a bad faith argument.
You dont get to claim that the US is a christian nation, founded on christianity, with a Speaker of the House saying he’s the new Moses, trying to destroy every barrier between church and state, then also claim that government isnt meant to do these functions when its inconvienent.
This is an exceptional comment. Thank you.
This is exactly right. Sad that you’re downvoted by those who don’t know their new testament…
Because even the believer don’t. On top of the fact that they vote for the government to press and punish those same people. You are the ones who don’t know what you’re talking about.
You are the ones
Hmm… i detect a bit of a silly assumption…
They meant other Christians.
Only if they’re the right kind of Christians.
Your care is limited to Thoughts and Prayers.
But not money or action.
No, they spend plenty of money and action, they just spend it to deny women healthcare, limit whom you are allowed to love, and to remove books from libraries that show the experience of any non-white person. They spend spend it to cause harm to people they don’t even know for reasons they can’t even put into words
And the rest off us take no action… We talk a lot, think a lot, read a lot, think a lot, empathy a lot… Camon no action, no real struggle, no change. The system stays as it is… And the system is feed by all off us.
Plenty of people are. I’m going to local marches, calling my representatives every day, and organizing with my neighborhood mutual aid society. There are plenty of things to do. Right now is when we need hands on deck
the preferred nomenclature is least incoherent reactionary
thx
You care about others? You socialist monster, that means you want to slaughter millions.
“We didn’t think that included caring about people who weren’t cishet, white Christians! That aren’t poor! And don’t annoy us for whatever reason!”
cishet
Oh great, another new word. yay.
Congratulations on being one of today’s 10,000.
cishet is a combination of cisgender and heterosexual. both terms have been around for quite a while.
Cishet has been around for quite a while. It’s a contraction of cisgender (meaning one’s genitals and gender roughly match and have not been altered) and heterosexual (meaning one is primarily sexually interested in the opposite gender)
100 fucking percent.
Remember being told not to believe everything you read? Remember being told to be skeptical of what you read in the media?
I definitely was. The people that told me that almost certainly voted Trump though. (They’re not nut job supporters, but lifelong R’s.)
My dysfunctional, delusional and conspiracy-soaked parents told me all the time as I grew up, isolated and disallowed from having school or friends, that I needed to beware the world, that I must never trust others, that people were liars and crazy and that one day I would understand.
Now I do understand. After long-since having buried them all, I now know the truth they said would be so blessed and would “save” me. I now know the book they lived by was a book of ancient fairy tales with some good moral lessons and a lot of death and brutality. I know that they reason I was kept isolated was because they were mentally ill and in denial, I know that I was raised in a cult, not kept safe out in the wilderness. There will be no “second coming” there will be no “paradise” or apocalypse, I am not chosen or special other than the fact that I control my own life and destiny. And I know that THEY were the lying, crazy world that I must not trust. And there are so, so many like them still out there, to various degrees.
Honestly, taken in a vacuum it’s almost a biblical story in itself. That the hardest lesson is the one you have to learn on your own as you abandon literally everything you thought you knew and hoped for. That the real world is dark, and vast and cold and we live profoundly lonely lives, brief flashes of life that are gone in an instant as we cling to a mote of dust caught around a spark in the dark, and maybe we can choose to make our world better or we can choose to make our lives better or we can make the lives of others better and that’s it. We don’t get better options and they’re not mutually exclusive. If you’re not doing those things, you’re wasting time.
You.
Do.
Not.
Have.
Time.
To.
Waste.
Beautifully said
Some good ol’ Crusades.
Reminds me of Supply-side Jesus. https://imgur.com/gallery/bCqRp
Which is why leaving the church is one of the most christian things I have done.
I wish we could all leave capitalism.
Clean your links please : https://youtu.be/jjeUuakHsLw
🧼🧽🫧💦
It’d be much easier if they weren’t human.
“Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.” - Bara Dada (~1925)
I love the humorous and relevant username for this thread.
“Jokes on you idiot that was just so we could take advantage of you” oh.
That’s what I feel like all those cartoons I watched in the 80s and 90s did to me.
It’s because they are trying to worship the merciful God of Jesus and the wrathful, nationalistic god Yahweh at the same time.
An this little deity called ‘cold hard cash’ on the side
I wonder if people are telling kids to care about others as much as in past generations.
they may be telling children to care about others, but only as far as “fuck you, i got mine”
