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April 23, 2004

Faith vs Politics « Politics As Usual »

I don't usually like to bring faith into arguments regarding politics. To me, politics is a human creation designed to deal with issues on earth when not everyone has the same belief. To put it another way, Faith deals with matters of the heart, Politics rules in the realm of the head. I let my Faith influence my Politics, in the same way my heart influences my head. I don't let either one, though, have absolute control of the other.

Still, this makes a lot of sense to me:

I do recall the Bible saying that we should help the poor and so forth. However, I don't recall Jesus stipulating that we use other people's money to do so. In fact, it would be more moral -- and a genuine act of generosity -- to use your own money and time to help the poor. Voting to use other peoples' money wouldn't qualify as an act of Christian charity, as I see it.

From Robert Prather.

Posted by Nathan at 11:29 AM | Comments (2)
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Having your money taken away involuntarily to help others also deprives you of at least some of the opportunity to be generous. Seems to me those who think that's the way to go must be breaking pretty much all ten of the Commandments, some way or another.

Posted by: McGehee at April 23, 2004 06:24 PM

Well, actually, we all break all of the 10 Commandments, don't we? Isn't that why we need a savior?
But aside from that snark, there is a very real connection between taxes and charitable contribution: the more the involuntary contributions go up, the more the voluntary contributions go down, and vice versa.

Posted by: Nathan at April 23, 2004 08:09 PM
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