Dear Liberal Christians, It’s Not The Government’s Job To Give To The Poor. It’s Yours

By admin On Dec 10, 2017

There are legitimate reasons to criticize the GOP tax plan. Here, on the other hand, is a very illegitimate reason I’ve heard countless times from liberal Christians: The Bible wants us to pay higher taxes in order to help the poor. By receiving a tax cut, we are taking money away from the poor. Especially by cutting entitlements, which is supposed to be the next step for Republicans in Congress, we are shirking our Christian responsibility to care for the least of these. This is the “Christian” argument for Socialism, and Christian socialists have been making it for decades.

It hasn’t gotten any better with age.

As I see it, there are two very serious problems with the idea that we fulfill our Biblical duties by paying high taxes in order to fund a vast and wasteful Welfare State:

1) The people most likely to make this kind of argument in favor of high taxes are also the most likely to reject this kind of argument in favor of any other law. But if we are required to shape our tax policy according to Our Lord’s divine edicts (sounds good to me), then it follows that we must shape other public policies by the same standard.

So, goodbye abortion. For the Ten Commandments clearly forbid the taking of innocent life. Jeremiah 1:5 explicitly affirms the humanity of the unborn, as God declares, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.” And the Incarnation makes the issue as plain as can be. Our Lord became a “fetus” Himself. He was conceived in His mother’s womb and He developed through every stage just as every other child in history. Liberal Christians claim that Jesus never said anything about the unborn. Nonsense. He didn’t need to say anything about them. He became them. He elevated and sanctified human life at every stage by taking its form. End of discussion.

Also, goodbye gay marriage. For Genesis tells us that God made woman to be man’s partner. Christ, in Matthew 19, affirms this arrangement and explicitly defines marriage as between a man and a woman: “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh.'”