Via: California Political Review
Showing posts with label Santa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Santa. Show all posts
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Williamson: The Government Isn’t Santa
Presumably, Balthazar, Melchior, and Caspar were not engaged in gold mining, frankincense farming, or myrrh cultivation. They had other things to do, other stars to follow. For Christians, and for men of goodwill categorically, this is an important question: Feed my sheep, saith the Lord — okay: Feed ’em what? Some of the Apostles were said to have the gift of healing through the laying on of hands; those without such gifts still have an obligation to heal the sick (if the ACLU will allow it), which means building hospitals and clinics, equipping doctors and nurses, etc. With what?
If ye had but faith in the measure of a mustard seed . . . and if the mustard-seed approach does not work, and the mountains we command to be uprooted remain stubbornly in place, then we are back to the old-fashioned problems of human existence: scarcity and production. That is what is so maddening about Pope Francis’s recent apostolic exhortation — which is, as much as my fellow Catholics try to explain it away, a problematic document in many ways. The pope’s argument, fundamentally, is that we can have capitalism on the condition that we feed the poor. This is exactly backward: We can feed the poor if we have capitalism. To give away wealth presumes the existence of that wealth, whether it is an annual tithe or Jesus’ more radical stance of giving away all that one owns. Giving away all that you own does not do the poor an iota of good if you don’t have anything. You can’t spread the wealth without wealth.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
'It's A Great Opportunity For Me Personally, It's Great Opportunity For Our State' ASBURY PARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) –...
-
I always thought Democrats were the ones who excelled at being delusional! You know, as in believing that if there were more gun control...
-
Shocked by their poor showing in the 2012 presidential election, Republicans looked for ways to change their brand. The first idea: Embrace...
-
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was in frequent contact with President Obama and senior White House aides before t...
-
The devices would track every mile you drive —possibly including your location — and the government would use the data to draw up a tax b...
-
Consumers won’t be able to find out their eligibility for federal health insurance subsidies on HealthCare.gov for much of the next three d...
-
He seeks to control debates by banning opponents from them. Concealed within President Obama’s carping about Rush Limbaugh is a distas...
-
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday described the flash flooding that had killed at least three people in his state as "a relent...
-
(CNSNews.com) - President Obama, by issuing new rules that erode Obamacare's "financial structure," is putting the health ins...
-
Obama administration officials have insisted that their decision to grant states waivers to redefine work requirements for welfare recip...