I don't think this says anyone else hasn't already.
So, guilt trip all you like. The truth is, you cannot force charity. You can, though, promote personal responsibility by not providing the crutch of universal health care. If you make it clear that people are responsible for their own health, they will either learn how to eat correctly, exercise correctly, and teach others to do the same, or they will waste away in unhealth and die. They will be stronger. They will be better people, and more charitable because they are not wallowing in their own self-pity, expecting someone else to give them their health. But if you provide them with a crutch of universal health care, you might as well break their kneecaps and cripple them from becoming great.
No one enjoys tyranny except a tyrant. No one, except the lazy, undisciplined and selfish enjoys excepting a handout.
This seems like a digression from the topic statement. But it is not. Only a person who gives freely out of the charity of their own heart will be happy with loosing their goods/service/money. Charity only works when it is freely given. Tyrants who take from the people in the name of Charity have proven themselves, through history, to give only a poverty level of money or goods to the poor. Example: The US Federal Government only gives out about $15,000 per household in social security benefits per year, stipulating that a person can only receive the money if they don't work. And then they tax it as income. Real Charity raises a person up out of a poverty level, provides them with the means to provide for themselves, and then releases them to their own power to fend for themselves.
The family is the fundamental base unit of any society (whether by blood or by Jesus) and the parents are individually responsible for the success or failure of their family. Outside of this interdependency, this covenant based on love and trust and mutual provision, no one else can be counted accountable for your well-being. Why? Because in truth, we are all individuals (otherwise we would all be aspen trees) and invariably alone on this planet. If you do not agree, simply consider the fact of both the above example and the fact that no one enjoys paying taxes. If they say they do, they are liars. No one enjoys having government take from them any portion of what they have built or earned. No one enjoys being forced to cooperate. No one enjoys being put under the rule that others have written. This fundamental, universal dislike points to a universal spirit of individuality. Not a universal communal spirit.
Now, for those who are not 'religious.' This statement is fundamentally flawed in that the speaker has removed one fundamental law of reality from their thinking. Personal responsibility. Let's assume that this person is male. If you were to remove all 6 billion people from the planet and were to leave this speaker alone, along with his spouse, who would be responsible for their health care? Who would build their house? Who would weave their cloths? Who would hunt for them? Who would raise crops for them? Who would teach their children? Who else would have sex with them?
No one.
It is they who are the hypocrites, and deserving of being judged rightly and condemned by the words they speak.
Jesus Christ did not come to lay guilt upon humanity. He himself said, in the record of his life which is our Sacred Literature, "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full" and "the Son of Man has come for a propitiation of all sin." Jesus came to destroy all guilt, not destroy the guilty.
Not so that his own words could be slanted to place guilt on people who choose to either give or not give. He never forced anyone to give at the point of a gun.
Most of them have proven themselves false through their own words and actions. Many, like Timothy Geithner, do not follow what they say we all should. He is a tax evader - taxes that may have gone to a humble old woman to pay her heat bill. Many, like Barry Sotero, do not give but a merge portion of his vast riches to charitable organizations. What was it, less than 1% of his income went to charity last year? All of our ruling elite are rich and ungiving and yet they accuse us of being uncharitable. They all enjoy an extravagant lifestyle, on our dime, all the while saying that we taxpayers are overpaid, have extravagant vehicles, and should be more patriotic by paying even more of our hard earned income, not directly to the poor, but to them. The ruling elite.
He did, though, in anger, often turned his words against the ruling elite for their hypocrisy. On the Sabbath day, when he performed a miracle and healed a person, he was confronted by the ruling elite for 'working.' That ruling elite, through their own words, showed themselves to be dead in heart, when they said that it was illegal to heal on the Sabbath. They would rather have seen a person suffer than be healed because of their laws. The person that spoke this quote is much the same. They honor laws that, though they may not have written them, they have twisted for their own means. Yes, we should do good things to everyone around us, including our enemies. But how charitable is our current ruling elite, from both sides?
Glenn,
Here is my reply to the quote you've provided. It will come in several posts.
When attempting to quote Jesus Christ, the son of God, in an malefactions manipulation to lay on a guilt trip in order to further your political aspirations, there are some things that you really aught to consider.
Jesus was born into, grew up and lived a financially impoverished life. However, not once, in all of our Sacred Literature did he attempt to batter or embitter people with guilt in order to promote himself. He came humbly in this world so that his words would not be misconstrued as though they were from the ruling elite, the rich and the haughty. Rather, he came as a poor man so that people would see that he also lived not as a hypocrite pronouncing judgment from on high, well funded by donations and taxes as the ruling elite were, but as someone who made his own way and by the charitable hearts of others. He never guilted anyone into giving more than what they could, or from a heart of guilt, but rather praised a starving old woman for giving everything that she had for what she saw as the cause of God out of a giving heart.
Whatever the motivation of Washington and by what standards they consider a group 'terrorist' (I apparently am among the millions of domestic terrorists. I have TWO 'Don't Tread On Me' flags on the back of my truck AND a Native Texan sticker) any buildup and march on DC should go forward. Even if the US military, following the orders of a treasonous dictator, chooses not to instead turn their weapons on those traitors in black suits spewing black words and DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AS THEY SWORE AN OATH TO DO when they joined up, allow themselves to be used to suppress our lives and fortunes and JESUS-Given rights. I fear though that (and I say this with great heartache because I believe in the military and love them all) most of them will protect rather their careers and paychecks because it is truly what they hold dear.
![[Avatar]](/images/avatar26.png){kind=avatar}
Medley