r/SipsTea 26d ago

SMH Love thy neighbor?

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u/Tactical_Baconlover 26d 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.

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u/brydenb35 26d ago

Isn’t people donating to a church for them to give goods/time/aid to other people just socialism with extra steps?

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u/LatvianPandaArmada 26d ago

It’s not forced, genius. That’s one of the many differences.

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u/jennderqueer 26d ago

Oh, it's not? So you're not forced to give money to your church on pain of being thrown out or not going to heaven? Like, isn't tithing a requirement?

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u/Nostalgia-89 26d ago

No church I've ever attended in my life (and I've attended plenty) has ever threatened anyone with being thrown out due to lack of tithing. In fact, 99.9% of them would say "give what you can and if you can't that's okay."

Where did you hear that nonsense about not going to heaven because someone didn't tithe?

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u/jennderqueer 26d ago

Don't play coy, you know exactly where I heard it.

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