• n2burns@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    “The Bible is clear, and the history of Christendom broadly is clear, that it’s the church’s responsibility to meet the needs of the poor and to ensure that people have the services that they need to live flourishing lives,” Conzatti said.

    Besides just the practical craziness of the idea that you have to belong to a church to get social services, I don’t think the Bible makes it clear at all that social services are the church’s responsibility and not the state’s.

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      1 year ago

      The Bible is filled with a lot of contradicting bullshit. Anyone using it to tout some idea can be knocked down with some other passage in it as well.