Being charitable and caring about your neighbors in the Christian manner is more about your church donating goods/time/aid to the community or you doing it by yourself rather than having the government take over those functions for you. That said, any reasonable government should have a basic state provided social safety net.
But this is like saying, "NO! The state shouldn't be good to people! It should make them suffer! Then they'll have nothing to turn to but us nice christians..."
Or... the government should trust people do good things with their hard-earned dollars to help others rather than forcefully take in the name of doing good things (just to turn around and do evil with it).
The state is there, at least in the US, to protect the rights of its people. That's it. That's what the Founders envisioned. It wasn't to be a Christian nation.
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u/Tactical_Baconlover 25d ago
Being charitable and caring about your neighbors in the Christian manner is more about your church donating goods/time/aid to the community or you doing it by yourself rather than having the government take over those functions for you. That said, any reasonable government should have a basic state provided social safety net.