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Christianity is not about helping people. This is also true of the Government, the government’s job is not to help people. Now before you think too much let me clarify. Christianity should really just define those who believe in Jesus as their savior. While God loves all of us and we should love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Christianity’s most vital issues is not about feeding the poor, it’s about belief in Jesus and obedience to God. God wants us to love our neighbors and that can be in part feeding those who need it, but it is still not the primary tenant of belief. Good works are good but The Bible is clear that it is not good works that get you to heaven.

The Governments main jobs are to restrain evil, protect it’s citizens from other nations and people and to maintain infrastructure and the basic necessities of a country.  The government’s job is not to feed the poor. That is however something the Christian church should do.

 What I’m getting at is this. Looking at Brian Mclaren’s (a liberal “Christian”) webpage I saw an article that started off talking about how well known Christians and mega pastors listed as their voting priorities things like abortion and gay marriage but did not include feeding the poor. There is a good reason for this. Feeding the poor is not an election issue. It should be listed under Church priorities maybe but not election priorities. It is not the president’s job to feed the poor.

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