RE: Christianity, socialism, and Jesus

Everybody wants to help the poor, but we just have different views to achieve that goal.

Exactly. The simple point that I am trying to convey is that I don't believe Jesus would limit our ways of helping the poor. If he came today and saw that our government programs were helping the needy, he would approve. Would he want us to stop there? No, he wouldn't. He would expect us to give our time and our love to these people as well as to charity.

There is a large group of people who feel just the way I do and it is a legitimate sentiment. To disregard it is ignore about half of our population.