Kinda curious as to how many people with ‘middle-class incomes’ fly around on their own private jets, like the Falwells and other 501(c)(3) recipients?

Don’t really see the bad rap here. Yes, you can certainly argue that a rising tide lifts all boats, and the more wealth we have to spread around the better, but there’s a dozen different ways to say that without it reading like it was taken directly from the prosperity gospel playbook.

He’s also just plain wrong, as Warren says. Indeed, it’s very likely that the charity given by poor people has a much greater immediate effect than the donations from the wealthy, given much of it is likely given from one poor person in a community to another — a neighbor, friend, or family member.

Love the satire!

I should, of course, have said “the Bible” or, better still “the [Holy] Scriptures”, not “his Bible”.

“The idea that God loves the rich (otherwise they wouldn’t be rich!)”

No no, you have that all wrong. God only loves the rich conservatives. The rich liberals got that way because they made a deal with the devil.

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Of course it’s not our normally preferred, or first, thought in reply to this, but the poor person really does “give someone a job.” They give a “job” – a valuable task, a valuable opportunity – to bless one who “has” and is willing to obey God’s instruction to share, to sacrifice, to care for, someone in need.

It does a person great good – in character formation – to be in a position to have to humbly accept another’s assistance. And without the needy, what good is all that the “not needy” worth? It exists to be shared, to assist.

Because that’s where I am right now in my own personal development, so that’s what I see in everything. That’s the honest truth. For quite a few years now, I have listened to and read a steady stream of material that I disagree with, sometimes strongly. What it has done (for me) is demonstrated that both the left and right are often the same car in different colors of paint. And they are both a lemon of a car, because they waste a lot of energy trying to vilify one another using precisely the same tactics, and going nowhere while doing it.

I thought my swipe at Planned Parenthood was completely deserved and also relevant to my point in that post. Does it not seem odd to you that you are suggesting that I am defensive when you yourself are so obviously and sharply provoked by my remarks?

Hahaha. My only comment to that.