So, government “charity” versus Judeo-Christian charity. Helping people. It must be done, no question about that. But how? 

The key word in “helping people” is the word “help.” As I mentioned in my first article, I often give of my resources to aid people here in Thailand, but I frequently give people bread or food rather than money because I don’t believe I’m truly helping someone if I provide him/her money with which they use to buy booze or cigarettes or drugs. I try to be a little judicious with how I help people, but we can’t always know. I’d rather err on the side of love, however, and hope I’m doing them some good. 

But giving money to people who use it to murder or butcher their offspring, or commit fornication so they can have more babies and get more money, or who simply refuse to work and who parasite off others…this is not helping people, and has absolutely nothing to do with godly, righteous, Christian charity. Now, of course, not all of government “charity” goes to things that are blatantly godless and sinful; some government “charity,” I’m sure (I hope), surely goes to the truly “needy poor,” to those who will use it for righteous, decent, godly purposes like taking care of their families in some needful way.

But there is absolutely no doubt that countless billions—trillions—of honest, hard-working taxpayers’ money over the years has gone to support people who have absolutely no true claim to it as a “needy” individual. Just look at the fraud stories we see almost every day in the news as evidence of........

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