Quote: To bring up being our brother's keeper as a justification for robbing us of our hard earned wages and our liberty is weak, mind numbingly so. If one even "gets" the Bible, the message that God offers is one of liberty, freedom of choice, not a forced obedience. If you believe in God, Jesus as His son, then you choose to obey, to please Him, and to be charitible is for Him. So, to help out others is a personal choice, not one to be done by others, nor by a substitute entity.
Well I didn't really bring up this point but since you did you might as well reread that book carefully. Then ask one of his authority figures (any priest would be a good choice) because it isn't a personal choice, it is a command.
Well Ed, he did prove that some people don't "get" it
BTW, you're spot on. It's amazing that people who claim faith in God think they can also serve mammon (avarice)
Theological discussions get killed pretty quickly around here though, so let's drop that part.
It’s been my experience that the same people who want to guilt me into using the coercive power government of government to forcibly make people pay for their socialist nanny state programs by claiming “That’s what Jesus would do,†are the same ones who immediately respond with “You can’t legislate morality†anytime the commands of the Bible would go against them. I refuse to have my religious sentiments played by secularists. Besides, I have yet to read the passage that says Christians are supposed to pick others pockets to fund their charity. Compulsorily charity is not charity at all.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
