Liberals take credit for forcing other people to donate...they feel no need to sacrifice their own money!!
That’s exactly what is wrong with collective salvation. Pope Benedict was on target when he called it demonically inspired.
In reality there is no collective salvation. Souls are individuals and can’t be saved by force and forcing others does not save the forcer.
It’s one step removed from “works-based righteousness”.
It’s worse.
I call it “advocacy-based righteousness”.
Judas Iscariot syndrome...the first Social justice activist.
“Ought not that box of perfume had been sold and the money given to the poor?”(not that he was concerned about the poor but that he stole from the money box).
Christ’s response: “She was preparing me for my burial.” A poignant response, given Isariot’s coming betrayal of Jesus. Oh what Christ must have seen at that moment....Iscariot’s heart and his coming betrayal. I have to wonder if Christ’s voice betrayed a bitter irony, his eyes a trace of resigned sadness as he saw hell reaching for Iscariot’s soul! We can see the irony in hindsight...over 20 centuries later; the irony of the response and counter response shouting at us across time, cross and empty tomb. Just this story alone convinces that Christ is alive and is God in flesh!
At my IT job at a south carolina university, my uber lib female big (literally) boss would often put pamphlets for whatever pet cause the university was panhandling for. Usually it was some student fund. I threw them away. Her junior gal pal that ran a retail operation from her desk never seemed to get one. I looked at as a form of paying protection.
I give through church and a portion of any payout from stock media sales and Ebay auctions go to some animal rescues and other worthy ones.
I do it because I choose to.
I’m liquidating a project vehicle that I sort of fooled with. Doubt much will come of it but it is charity ebay auction.