Honestly I saw it a long time ago, and not all the way through.
I have an idea that what you're implying is, you thought that as a Christian person I would be Christ-like and about helping people, not leaving them high and dry. I understand that, but I don't think you're seeing that I am ALL ABOUT helping people - individual people I come across and local places that give aid to those who walk in through the door. I think everyone should do that. Whether it's handing the homeless guy a $20 and a hot chocolate, taking all your used stuff to donate rather than throw out, volunteering at shelters, giving 10% to tything, supporting a family because they need it and you can, paying your niece's way through college, organizing something in your town that does something for people that you care about - I love all of those things and try to teach my kids to love them.
I think that politicians, though, are always in it for personal gain to some degree, and governments are always going to be slow moving, inefficient machines...It's like the way a small business is a beautiful thing, but blow it up into a big business and you end up with something horrendous, like Walmart. I don't shop at Walmart. Ever. Even if it means we wait til the next day when something else is open, or do without because we can't afford it somewhere else. Because they push and promote treating low income workers horribly, and I can't stand that. I don't buy Nestle, even when I have a craving or it means I have to make the mousse from scratch, because they hurt poor mothers and babies in places where those mothers don't know any better or have options.
I care about people a whole lot. I just have a different opinion about how to put that into action. I think if people reached out, as Christians or just as caring human beings, to each other, on a local level, a LOT less people would fall through the cracks than will in a nationwide program of any kind, which will by it's very nature not be able to take individuals into account to the same extent. And which will likely, by it's very nature, make local support networks dwindle away as people feel this other thing is taking it's place (and their dollars).
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I have an idea that what you're implying is, you thought that as a Christian person I would be Christ-like and about helping people, not leaving them high and dry. I understand that, but I don't think you're seeing that I am ALL ABOUT helping people - individual people I come across and local places that give aid to those who walk in through the door. I think everyone should do that. Whether it's handing the homeless guy a $20 and a hot chocolate, taking all your used stuff to donate rather than throw out, volunteering at shelters, giving 10% to tything, supporting a family because they need it and you can, paying your niece's way through college, organizing something in your town that does something for people that you care about - I love all of those things and try to teach my kids to love them.
I think that politicians, though, are always in it for personal gain to some degree, and governments are always going to be slow moving, inefficient machines...It's like the way a small business is a beautiful thing, but blow it up into a big business and you end up with something horrendous, like Walmart. I don't shop at Walmart. Ever. Even if it means we wait til the next day when something else is open, or do without because we can't afford it somewhere else. Because they push and promote treating low income workers horribly, and I can't stand that. I don't buy Nestle, even when I have a craving or it means I have to make the mousse from scratch, because they hurt poor mothers and babies in places where those mothers don't know any better or have options.
I care about people a whole lot. I just have a different opinion about how to put that into action. I think if people reached out, as Christians or just as caring human beings, to each other, on a local level, a LOT less people would fall through the cracks than will in a nationwide program of any kind, which will by it's very nature not be able to take individuals into account to the same extent. And which will likely, by it's very nature, make local support networks dwindle away as people feel this other thing is taking it's place (and their dollars).