Sacred Scripture Slams Dan Calabrese Thought

Responseto Dan Calabrese on the Michigan View in “Democrat observes 'money has replacedmorals' “ on February 14, 2011

Calabrese wrote:

"People the state has programmed to depend on checks from Lansing AREN'T GOING TO GET THEM ANYMORE. They're going to have to find a way to become more self-sufficient and EARN, ON THEIR OWN, EVERY DOLLAR THEY NEED."

(Here we could make a likely list of whom Dan has in mind, starting with our tens of thousands of unemployed and off unemployment and moving on to enumerate the usual pinchpenny "undeserving." Re: Calbrese 'Democrat observes money has replaced morals')

Dan goes on to justify the present rush to spun all those on his list of "undeserving": "That,(intervention to help and assist) my friends, is immoral. It's making the empty promise of money a substitute for real morality, which is the compassionate act of spurring someone to become self-sufficient."

Dan's thought is so anti-GOD !

'In case some one of your brothers becomes poor among you in one of your cities, in your land that Jehovah your God is giving you, YOU MUST NOT HARDEN YOUR HEART OR BE CLOSEFISTED TOWARD YOUR POOR BROTHER. For you should generously open your hand to him and by all means lend him on pledge as much as he needs, which he is in want of... You should by all means give to him, and your heart should not be stingy in your giving to him, because on this account Jehovah your God will bless you in every deed of yours and in every undertaking of yours. For someone poor will never cease to be in the midst of the land. That is why I AM COMMANDING you, saying, 'You should generously open up your hand to your afflicted and poor brother in your land." (Deut 15:7-11).

We have operated the state of Michigan over the years, through many cycles of downturns and recessions, but never, never did we endorse such a stoneheated attitude toward "God's poor" as yours, Calabrese.

"May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and gave everlasting comfort and good hope by means of UNDESERVED KINDNESS, comfort your hearts and make you firm in every good deed and word." (2 Thess 2:16,17).

As Abraham Lincoln said,

"God must love the poor he made so many of them."THE LORD "HAS NO FAVORITES AT THE POOR MAN'S EXPENSE, but listens to his prayer when he is wronged." (Eccus 35:13).

If there is a zoo in heaven, in the section devoted to earthly predator's section, there's a purgatory cage for AYN RAND, AUTHOR OF THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS, SO BELOVED AND EMULATED BY HER UBER CONSERVATIVES, FELLOW TRAVELERS HERE ON EARTH.

God's Word says:

"My brothers, what use is it for a man to say he has faith when he does nothing to show it? Can that faith save him? Suppose a brother or a sister is in rags with not enough food for the day, and one of you says, 'GOOD LUCK TO YOU, KEEP YOURSELVES WARM, AND HAVE PLENTY TO EAT', BUT DOES NOTHING TO SUPPLY THEIR BODILY NEEDS, what is the good of that? So with faith; if it does not lead to action, it is in itself a lifeless thing." (James 2:14-17)

Other parting words from sacred scripture for Calabrese to ponder during his prayer time:

"...But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves with many a pang."

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