No where does God admonish governments to forcibly steal from those who work and give to those who do not work.
We are admonished to care for the poor but it is voluntary.
Actually, highly intelligent, but not rational.
You’re absolutely right about whose responsibility it is.
I just posted that on another thread.
sorry, i disagree. We are told to look after our brethren and Early Christians did that -- but remember that looking after includes helping the sick and helpless, but not to make them dumb pets or animals who can't help themselves. We are to leave the grain at the side of our fields for them to pick -- but they gotta do that work
I gave some examples in post 54 of real people who WORKED and let me add another one -- this one is a friend of mine who was poor, but worked as a grunt on a off-shore drill, dangerous work, but worked hard and now he's loaded -- really rich.
His brothers are well off and they own houses while his parents couldn't even dream of that.
If he was just given handouts he would never have worked hard to improve himself and quite frankly now he and his family are living much, MUCH better than if he just got welfare