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Originally posted by Lebell
Well, there is a huge difference between choosing to make a personal sacrifice and having it forced on you by the government in the form of taxes that they, not you, decide how to spend.
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No, there's not. Not when you vote for a person who advocates cutting welfare and education and art programs and working against universal health care and social security all in favor of giving you back some tax money. Your argument would be valid if the majority of Christians (and hell the majority of PEOPLE) took their tax return money and spent it on helping the poor and disenfranchised -- but we don't. And if you're not claiming some moral superiority as a Christian than i don't fault you quite so much for buying that big screen tv but if you're going to act as if you live jesus' message everyday you have to do more than just preach about who you think deserves to go to hell -- you have to support the programs that help the poor. It would be nice if we didn't need such programs -- if the haves among us were willing without government intervention to help the have nots -- but clearly that is not the case.