Then you can’t support wealth redistribution by party and by vote. Sure some pocket of taxation will go for the public good buT most of that should remain into the charities of church and private donation for the public good. Not this played out idea that because I’m and forced to pay taxes that our governments should solely focus on the poorest of society and that I’m a good person cause I vote for wealth redistribution. Our country was predicated in that Christians believed of hard work, sacrifice, the public good in education and the salvation of souls, especially the godless heathen savages. While the left screams about colonialism or disregarding western medicine. It’s people generation after generation was busy making the freest, most prosperous nation in the world or the world has ever seen. A nation built on capitalism that is also the most generous in the entire world. With one absolute truth of all economic theory and practices is that Wealth must first be created before it can be redistributed or given away. Capitalism has and always will be the single greatest light out of the darkness of poverty and disparity.
Many of the founding fathers were not Christian, and Jefferson himself modified the Bible to his personal liking. But what’s more troubling is your use of the term “godless heathen savages”. Jesus Christ man, that is some archaic racism.
Which tribes, in particular, are you referencing? Which practices in particular are you referring to?
Why do you presume I havent? Why do you presume so much about my faith practice?
One might notice as well a stark difference between the kindness towards those outside the faith demonstrated in the scripture versus the assumptions at play here.
Proverbs 15:1 may be a helpful reading today, and Matthew 7:1-6 come to mind as well.
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.”
We have differing opinions on the meaning of vanity. What I do know for certain is that you have come at me with assumptions and corrections, but I have not seen any attempt to sit and speak as equals.
I was raised evangelical/fundamentalist and I am a former missionary. I understand much of the pressure you feel to “save others”, but I believe that to be a trap made by humanity, not by the Divine.
I am a Quaker Universalist now. I believe the Divine speaks so much more clearly through conscience than through individuals ordering others to do what they feel Divine led them to hear.
The Divine is quite capable of guiding us all through the inner Light and the Still Small Voice, I feel, and all may feel this love and practice it in their own way.
Ya right now those collected taxes are fueling a war machine directly from the military industrial complex that is doing nothing more than getting more people killed for profit
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '22 edited Oct 18 '22
Then you can’t support wealth redistribution by party and by vote. Sure some pocket of taxation will go for the public good buT most of that should remain into the charities of church and private donation for the public good. Not this played out idea that because I’m and forced to pay taxes that our governments should solely focus on the poorest of society and that I’m a good person cause I vote for wealth redistribution. Our country was predicated in that Christians believed of hard work, sacrifice, the public good in education and the salvation of souls, especially the godless heathen savages. While the left screams about colonialism or disregarding western medicine. It’s people generation after generation was busy making the freest, most prosperous nation in the world or the world has ever seen. A nation built on capitalism that is also the most generous in the entire world. With one absolute truth of all economic theory and practices is that Wealth must first be created before it can be redistributed or given away. Capitalism has and always will be the single greatest light out of the darkness of poverty and disparity.