Take Down the Bird Feeder!

patrick jane View Post
[Gov't handouts] Animals and people love free stuff
Alate_One View Post
[Caring for: widow, orphan, stranger] ...You're willing to let people die on your ridiculous principles.
That's what family and church are for (Ex 20:15).
Clete View Post
Here's an example of Paul specifically regulating welfare, who should receive it and under what circumstances....

I Timothy 5:3 Honor widows who are really widows. 4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God. 5 Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day. 6 But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives. 7 And these things command, that they may be blameless. 8 But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

That's right. Love and care for your family. This isn't rocket science (Eccl 10:2, Jn 10:10).
Alate_One View Post
[Gov't handouts] Leviticus 23:22

"'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the LORD your God.'"

It is not the role of government to care for you or your family (Ex 20:15). That is your husband's job (Duties of, toward wife: love (Eph. 5:25–33), live with for life (Matt. 19:3–9), be faithful to (Mal. 2:14, 15), be satisfied with (Prov. 5:18, 19),... honor (1 Pet 3:7), confer with (Gen. 31:4–16), provide for (1 Tim 5:8)... Thomas Nelson Publishers. (1996). Nelson’s quick reference topical Bible index (p. 301). Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

If he's dead or an infidel, the church may help you.

See:

Lev 19:9-10 McGee
Clete View Post
The government taking money from you and giving it to someone else is stealing.
Arthur Brain View Post
It's not 'fundamentally corrupt' and nor is it stealing.

Yes it is--with a gun no less (Ro 3:8).
ok doser View Post
So you're saying we should round up all the slackers at the welfare office and put them to work gleaning the edges of the fields?  Sound good to me.

If it was good enough for Ruth, it's good enough for her (Ru 2:23). Now, she'll want an Obama: phone, TV, cable, internet, home and car (2 Thess 3:10).
 

Take Down the Bird Feeder!