They are against Jesus' teachings to help the poor!
2007-06-25 00:56:51 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Don't let anyone sugar coat the truth! Republicans do not care about the poor! I could not believe all of these answers that you have received so far!! I hear people who profess to be Republican talking everyday where I work! They hate it that poor people get food stamps, and Medicaid. They think all people getting help would rather live off of the government than work! They think there is plenty of work for everyone! Yea right! They curse the Democrats for giving them the help! That is so wrong! The people who talk this way have never had to live poor and believe me living off of State Aid is so far below the poverty level it's sicking! The Republican Party DOES claim to be the party of christian values! They quite simply lie to get votes!
2007-06-25 11:08:17 · answer #1 · answered by sheila g 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your assumption isn't wrong. Republicans want big government out of people's lives which includes slashing government funded agencies that help the poor. I don't think Jesus would be down with that. Maybe a Republican would give money directly to a poor person but ask right leaning Republicans about welfare and see what the reaction is. The Republican party doesn't believe in helping others, you only have to look at their actions so far. How many programs have been cut for the needy? Do they really want the meek to inherit the earth? I doubt it.
2007-06-25 08:08:49 · answer #2 · answered by Yogini 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Republicans are not against helping the poor with their own money through voluntary acts of private charity. They do so extensively and have done so throughout our history, as have Democrats and others.
However, it is a perversion of Christianity to assert that any group or groups of Americans who find themselves in a transitory majority at the ballot box are thereby morally, as opposed to legally, entitled to help themselves to the money of others by use of the government's taxing power.
We cannot pretend that we do a moral act or that we cause others to do a moral act when we force them, by our use of the power of government, to hand over their money involuntarily in order to enable the government to distribute it to others for purposes of the government's choosing.
By taking away from those from whom the money was extracted by taxation the ability to give it to worthy causes of their choosing by an exercise of their own free will, and by implicating in the extraction those who use the ballot box to authorize and execute it, we do nothing that would enhance the moral standing of those who hand it over, of those who force their fellow citizens to stand and deliver it, or of those who receive it. It's nothing but a species of legalized theft, and it is hard to understand why some people believe, or pretend to believe, or say they believe, that such a perversion of the use of government power is required by Jesus' teachings. Where is it written that Jesus said, "Render unto Caesar the things that are God's"?
2007-06-25 09:29:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im Christian and a republican and believe in helping the poor. What I don't believe is giving people money who are too lazy to get out and get a job.
2007-06-25 08:15:13 · answer #4 · answered by ANGEL3Y35 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Keeping taxes low keeps the economy running. That does more to help the poor than every social program man has ever thought up.
Given that we have more poor than ever since welfare started in the sixties I would think you would realize that.
2007-06-25 08:06:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Didn't Jesus say that the poor will be with you always?
2007-06-25 08:05:02 · answer #6 · answered by John C 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
what the poor has is to be added to top up the rich mans wealth..so hurry and get yourself out of poverty
2007-06-25 08:14:40 · answer #7 · answered by G.xi 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
good question...but i have to agree that u can't generalize all republicans just some...well maybe most
2007-06-25 08:51:26 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've never met a single Republican who's against helping the poor.
And not all Republicans are Christians.
2007-06-25 08:04:19 · answer #9 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 3⤊ 6⤋
Your assumption is wrong.
2007-06-25 08:05:00 · answer #10 · answered by vincefoster 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋