Undoubtedly we are. We are all Children of the Most High (Psalm 82). What that “image” is though, is a fascination discussion of possibilities.
I’ve noticed that whenever a liberal says " We need to have a dialogue", the last thing they actually want is a dialogue.
When you brush off, as the rantings of a cultist lunatic, the points I make, you then can pretend the points don’t exist. Meanwhile society continues to suffer because that’s what you guys do.
I’m sure you’ve heard the definition of insanity. To keep doing the same thing over and over and over, in hopes of a different result. The biggest problem liberals have is refusing to acknowledge that man is his own worst enemy. We bring every problem and evil upon ourselves. Despite our best efforts and all the hope in the world, still our problems persist. Man is not the solution, but the problem.
Think about this: What does a new born infant know? Does he know he’s poor? Does he know he’s white or black or American or Chinese or atheist, Christian or Hindu? Does he know to hate people because of race or religion? Does he know he will end up by age 25 uneducated and in jail for life? Nope. EVERYTHING he is is what he is taught. So, if we find ourselves, in our young life in a situation we don’t like, how do we change the situation? The situation will never change for anybody if they don’t own their own life.
I’ll grant that government can provide some things to help people. People who are hungry sure appreciate food stamps. People who are homeless sure appreciate a warm place to sleep, but government has been doing these things for decades and still the homeless situation in places like San Francisco get to the point that the rest of society is dealing with problems like feces and syringes in the streets. The reason these problems persist us because government doesn’t, can’t and never will address the underlying problem, which is the fallen nature of people that can only be changed by Christ. This is the teaching and training that people need to avoid poverty and other problems in life. It’s accepted by faith, confirmed by observation and experience.
It’s denied by liberals who keep believing and doing the same insane things…
Ok. How does the high rate of rural poverty figure into all of this?
We have more educational opportunities than ever and still rural communities are poverty-ridden ghettos.
White light is the color spectrum in its entirety. Could God’s image be the entirety of every image?
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Nothing is stopping the church from fixing it all. The church and Christianity have been around a lot longer than the USA.
I’ve never claimed government is a perfect solution. But social safety nets have helped millions stay off the streets.
Now, I know you heard on the radio Nancy Pelosi’s neighborhood has homeless / needle on the streets problem. But sorry if I don’t buy into partisan, cherry picked hysteria
To quote Mufasa: Remember who you are. Those who are given charity (goods and love) should be saying to their providers (perhaps government especially), Remember who we are.
The government sees poor people instead of kings. It creates a bureaucracy which quickly becomes an agency whose prime importance is to fight for its own existence and its own importance. The poor are given the left overs…because after all, they are the poor and should be grateful for the leavings.
Treat the poor as contributors, teach them how to contribute, and let them know these contributions have value. If it is more blessed to give than to receive, than why aren’t we blessing the poor? Why keep them and their descendants of many generations in poverty?
Perhaps. It could also be the underlying irrationality that makes up the most fundamental shapes of physical geometry (Phi, pi, etc.), which our bodies, right down to the atom, are measured from.
The government is doing magnitudes better than the church in helping educate the poor. Community colleges and state schools are way cheaper and more accessible than expensive private Catholic schools. I also don’t see Churches providing enough classes and rooms M-F for urban areas with 10,000s of students. The fact is government picks up all the Church’s slack.
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Sounds like nature.
What’s the difference?
Look at some of the dimensionless constants we find in reality. Pi, e…
If any of these constant were a whole number that would be amazing and possible evidence of design. Yet they are all real numbers, or numbers you would expect nature to produce.
There’s plenty of poverty, though I don’t think anyone could put a credible case for rural ghettos like in the big cities. The underlying problem is the same. People of sound mind and body not taking responsibility for their own lives.
You don’t like the current measurements of existence? How would you prefer a circle be shaped if not dictated by Pi’s relation with respect to its diameter and circumference?
Then why do you blame the government?
There’s less today than when before government created a larger safety net.
And if the Church is such a great catalyst for getting people out of poverty, why hasn’t the Church figured it out after 2000 years? Why are Catholic schools and universities so expensive and inaccessible to the poor?
That’s fake news.
True intelligence involves Faith. Fake science is just arrogance, that pretends it has answers they don’t have.
Faith, is a moment that includes factors, science has no clue about.
Faith goes beyond shallow, click-clack, mechanical thinking.
I agree 100% the church has dropped the ball. Too many churches have forgotten the great commission and have become social clubs dispensing warm fuzzy feelings and promises of wealth and happiness.
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I like this idea Meri and there are many poor who will, or wish to contribute. Too many though, choose the easy way and are all too happy to wait for someone to stick food in their mouths and literally live on the streets if someone doesn’t. The government makes no real effort to separate the wills from the won’ts. As you said, they are concerned more with justifying their existence.
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