"if they are unwilling to work..."
Yes I am aware. And that is what we have been talking about. An unwillingness to work.
You and so many on the left must be corrected iver and iver again. I dont know if its a mental block or what it is.
We on the right are NOT against helping the poor. We UNDERSTAND that there are those who cannot work for various reasons that are not their fault. NO ONE is saying that we shouldn't help them. So please STOP insinuating or saying we are. Its disingenuous at best to make that claim.
We care about everyone including our fellow citizens who are paying for these things out of their hard earned money. It should be spent WISELY. Thats also a scriptural value by the way. Conservatives are extremely generous with their money. We WANT to help the needy as much as any liberal does. But we also do not want to take money from others unwisely. Forcing your fellow citizens to pay for things should come with a serious outlook of "is this necessary and wise". And I'm telling you its often not necessary or wise. And by the way that goes for a lot of things the government spends our money on. So please stop being disingenuous about what we are saying. If you accuse us again of not wanting to help poor people and won't be responding to you anymore on this subject. You would be proving that you dont care if you are being disingenuous and misrepresenting our position.
If you are unwilling to work you should not eat. IF we are going to use scripture to determine how a government should operate we have to use ALL OF IT. Picking and choosing what you want enforced by government is a violation of scripture. You are to take all of it, not just what you want to see.
Shame on you or anyone who uses scripture as a club to try and enforce government action. Without using all of it. Its no different than trying to use scripture to outlaw homosexuality or adultery. And then turning around and saying we should not use scripture to enforce the helping of the poor through taxpayer money.
I will tell you what I told another poster.
I will support the use if taxpayer money to help the poor under any circumstance if you will agree to outlaw homosexuality, a adultery abortion, lying etc. Would you support that?
Nevermind the fact that 44% of SNAP recipients ALREADY WORK (making the point, at least kinda moot).
Thats irrelevant. Just because 44% of SNAP recipients work doeant mean they should be getting snap. I mean we seriously could make up any number we wanted to say everyone who make under $80000 gets SNAP. Then we could say, well obviously its a probelm because 80% of workers on on SNAP.
No we have GREATLY increased the number of people on snap by artificial means and not because they really need it.
I also appreciate this exegenesis on that particular passage:
If a Person Doesn’t Work, Let Them Eat Anyway
I dont appreciate it at all. Its written from a social agenda rather that a actual Biblical exigesis. How do I know. There's a little statement that is made that says volumes.
"There are those who want to work but have a hard time finding a job that lines up with their skills and desires."
That tells me immediately that writer has an agenda and a predisposed position they are trying to create.
As a Bible scholar I don't appreciate that. I won't go into all of his points to point out his errors and failures of application. Although I could. Suffice it to say, there are far too many believers, left and right who wish to use scriptures for their own agenda rather than for what it actually says.
