Why are the many poor? Because the few are rich. Property is theft. In our world there is plenty for everyone, if we are brave enough to get rid of the wicked.
As you know, Jesus lived in a society where most people were very poor in today's terms, and it is not only silly but obscene to pretend we can't afford whatever anyone needs. Jesus, as you see from his views of the rich, was the nearest thing to a socialist his world afforded: read Acts and study the early Church.
We must always have the poor amongst us, must we? We didn't here between 1945 and 1951 (when Labour were finally cheated out of power having scored the biggest vote for any party achieved in British history) supported by most Christians (my Father was an Anglican priest), though a couple of Bishops supported the Communist Party). I saw my first beggar years later in Cambridge, and he was a fake getting his beer-money from a lot of upper-class clowns who lived in the past, and it was only under Thatcher that real poverty returned. All this bilge of yours is wicked, anachronistic nonsense: we don't live in the First Century.
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Reality: Some 22 Trillion dollars has been spent by socialists in the United States sense the 1960s and the inception of the Great Society Welfare Programs (not including SS and Medicare)......yet after more than 50 years poverty still exists in the United States with the needle that measures such barely moving. THE WAR ON POVERTY appears to be a losing battle. This war on poverty has cost the US tax payers nearly 3.5 times the total cost of ALL THE WARS ever fought in the entire history of the US Military.
www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality
https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/the-war-poverty-after-50-years
No poor existed between 1945 and 1951? I Call BS on this AD HOMINEM "subjective" attempt at hyperbolic bloviation
How can poverty RETURN when it never left? Poverty has been among mankind since the beginning....even in Great Britain and you are a liar if you suggest that poverty was eliminated. You may have (through fascist and totalitarian doctrines) attempted to redistribute wealth......making everyone equally impoverished .....you never eliminated poverty.
Do I really care about your subjective opinions when everyone has access to the truth concerning the proper doctrine of Christianity.....the Holy Scriptures? No, I simply point out the truth when subjective opinion is attempting to establish DOGMA and TRADITION in place of righteous doctrine. You are propagating FALSE DOCTRINE
The entirety of mankind will never find the proper path to righteousness, the way is too narrow for the majority, "Enter ye at the straight gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction; and many there be which go in there at. Because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadth unto life, and few there be that find it. BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS, WHICH COME TO YOU IN SHEEPS CLOTHING (much like the Catholic rulers of the middle ages that taught manmade dogma and tradition rather than doctrine found in scripture), but inwardly they are ravening wolves." -- Matt. 7:13-15
Does it surprise me there are many RICH that refuse to share, to give to the needy? Of course not......its the human condition, as long as freewill exists, poverty will exist. The only way to even pretend to eliminate poverty is to propagate Totalitarianism and Fascism where the state takes away that free will under threat of fine, imprisonment or even DEATH. Thus, in a FREE REPUBLIC.......where you find the concept of LIBERTY and FREEDOM.........you will always find that poverty will always exist due to the liberty of freedom and chance circumstances.
Indeed........and God tells us that the human condition will remain the same. Don't believe GOD INCARNATE that tells us that "The poor will be among you always", its your soul, your right as conveyor of the gift of FREE WILL. Why will there always be the poor among us? Because the majority of people have no compassion and are self centered. That FACT does not eliminate the TRUTH found in scripture. Everyone sins...only God knows the heart of man and will reward or punish determined upon that knowledge. Still THE POOR will remain among us until the end of days.
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; WHO CAN KNOW IT? I THE LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings." -- Jer. 17:9-10 Some faiths call it KARMA.
You can rant about your MAXIST AGENDA in attempting to divide and separate the population by pitting the rich against the poor.......the black against the white......one gender against another and tell us that you are doing this for the good of the COLLECTIVE in the name of diversity. Is diversity and the preaching thereof a good thing? Only if you want to divide a peoples based upon skin color and social status....and create a tribal mentality instead of properly assimilating as ONE NATION UNDER GOD as being a US CITIZEN regardless of skin color, race, gender, religion etc.,
That reality is what frightens the hell out of the MARXIST........ONE NATION SPEAKING WITH ONE VOICE IN DEDICATION TO ONE CAUSE....peace. With national pride you get no book burnings...the modern equivalent of which is the attempt to burn down, tear down all our national monuments......silence any voice that does not agree with your fascist opinion, that propagates riots, looting, burning...even MURDER in the name of your diversity because the END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS.
You correctly stated the fact.......there are many that refuse to have compaison......to give where human suffering exists...but still you can't legislate poverty into not existing just as the Christ explained. Why? Its simple, There will be FEW that will find THE WAY.
What is the WAY? Jesus is the WAY. -- John 14:6 God said the way would be easy for those who believed in righteousness -- Isaiah 42:16 Every obstacle would be removed out of the WAY -- Isaiah 57:14. Only the wicked (the majority of all mankind who sins void of repentance) stumbles on the path of righteousness -- Hosea 14:9 JESUS IS THAT ROCK THAT CAUSES THE WICKED TO STUMBLE -- 1 Peter 2:7-8
To walk on the path that is the correct WAY requires, BELIEF, ACCEPTENCE, AND OBEDIENCE TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE CHRIST, which the many are unwilling to accept and follow.
The many insist upon walking on their own path (as an agent of free will....man often chooses wrong) -- Rom. 9:32-33 Jesus teaches they must choose the correct WAY to find salvation...He makes them choose. -- John 15:18-25
People love wickedness to much to choose correctly and walk a clean path in this reality we call LIFE. -- 2 Thess. 2:9-12
Is the Christian instructed to give, to have compassion? Of course...but the Christian is instructed to give to those he observes that are in need. The Christians first duty is LOCALLY....to give to the local brotherhood and community where it is needed. A Christian is instructed to give unto Caesar that which belongs to Caesar....but that giving is not charity, not in the least...there is no compassion when paying taxes that are wasted. Give and work in your own communities where you can observe first hand where need exists....as instructed in scripture. How can you witness need first hand when a central government thousands of miles away MANDATES you to share in your income? You can't.....so I say, If 10% was good enough for God.........then 10% is good enough for Caesar.
