Or to promote the general Welfare
What is the only Christian value that the Reaganites and tea Republicans deny as a purpose of our government ? Charity !
The Preamble to the Constitution provides:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Yes WELFARE, or Charity is one of the goals of America as provided for in the Preamble.
Providing Welfare is also explicitly mentioned as one of the powers of Congress:
"Section 8
1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;"So, once again, the Reaganites, the tea Republicans, who have made cutting welfare to the poor one of their major aims, are not only anti-American , but un-Christian, denying that the Christian value of charity is in the US Constitution.They claim that the US is a Christian nation, but the one Christian principle that the Founding Fathers did found the nation on, the tea Republicans violate and fight against !
Here is the famous Biblical passage on Charity:
1 Corinthians 13, running from verse 4 to the end.
"4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."
Charity is greater than Faith ! according to this passage.
Good point, Stephen.
Charles Brown Although, I don't mind paying my tiny portion of welfare for the poor as my Christian charitable contribution to the poor. Welfare is a Christian institution built into the American Constitution. It combines church and state and the lying rightwing Republicans are against the one actual Christian part of the American government. They are fake Christians. :http://take10charles.blogspot.com/.../what-christian...
take10charles.blogspot.com- Charles Brown What Christian value did the Founding Fathers express in the US Constitution as a purpose of our government ? CHARITY !
Or to promote the general Welfare
What is the only Christian value that the Reaganites and tea Republicans deny as a purpose of our government ? Charity !
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