Loving our neighbors
Since I was raised to believe that my neighbor's problem is also my problem...
Apparently someone forgot to teach you that sometimes your neighbor wishes you would just mind your own business. Someone also forgot to tell you that your decision to fix your neighbor's problem does not mean you get to force your other neighbor to join in. We've been through this forced charity discussion before. If you feel charitable toward your neighbor, then good for you, but you can't force anyone else to feel the same way. It is especially immoral to do so using the might of the government.
This is also what Jesus taught, and I try to follow his teachings to the best of my ability.
And Jesus would take a very dim view of you forcing everyone to do what you think is right at the point of a gun, just as he would take a very dim view of you denigrating your neighbor for their decision to participate or not participate in your definition of charity. Apparently someone forgot to point out those parts of Jesus' teaching to you.
He'd probably feel differently if he saw all these crack-heads!!
Nice try, but you sound like Tucker. You were trying to brow-beat Andy on the subject of poverty using the homeless people at the shelter on Patterson Avenue. I told you their problem wasn't poverty, it was behavioral. We already know what Jesus would do regarding the crack-heads. If you need a refresher, read Matthew 9:10. What he wouldn't do is to send his jackboots (if he had any) to my house to demand money from me at the point of a gun to hand over to the crack-heads.
The point is, Andy and I have just as much compassion for these people as you do. Your insinuations that we do not since we do not approve of charity at the point of a gun are groundless. Forced charity is no charity at all.
Apparently someone forgot to teach you that sometimes your neighbor wishes you would just mind your own business. Someone also forgot to tell you that your decision to fix your neighbor's problem does not mean you get to force your other neighbor to join in. We've been through this forced charity discussion before. If you feel charitable toward your neighbor, then good for you, but you can't force anyone else to feel the same way. It is especially immoral to do so using the might of the government.
This is also what Jesus taught, and I try to follow his teachings to the best of my ability.
And Jesus would take a very dim view of you forcing everyone to do what you think is right at the point of a gun, just as he would take a very dim view of you denigrating your neighbor for their decision to participate or not participate in your definition of charity. Apparently someone forgot to point out those parts of Jesus' teaching to you.
He'd probably feel differently if he saw all these crack-heads!!
Nice try, but you sound like Tucker. You were trying to brow-beat Andy on the subject of poverty using the homeless people at the shelter on Patterson Avenue. I told you their problem wasn't poverty, it was behavioral. We already know what Jesus would do regarding the crack-heads. If you need a refresher, read Matthew 9:10. What he wouldn't do is to send his jackboots (if he had any) to my house to demand money from me at the point of a gun to hand over to the crack-heads.
The point is, Andy and I have just as much compassion for these people as you do. Your insinuations that we do not since we do not approve of charity at the point of a gun are groundless. Forced charity is no charity at all.
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