Last week, President Obama attended the National Prayer Breakfast and, naturally made a statement about faith. No problem, right? It was a Prayer Breakfast, after all. But you have to look at what he said.
He was talking about raising taxes on the rich (what else?) and clinched it by saying that was in line with Jesus’ teaching that “unto whom much is given, much is required”, quoting the Gospel of Luke.
What Liberals always conveniently forget is that there is a MAJOR difference between freewill contributions to Christian charities motivated by a grateful heart for God’s blessings and money being taken from your paycheck before you receive it, with the implied threat of harassment, audit, confiscation of property and eventual imprisonment by armed treasury agents.
I’m sure the latter is exactly what Jesus was talking about.
Unfortunately, President Obama’s entire philosophy concerning taxes is based on things that are anathema to Christianity: he regularly puts on display his envy, jealousy and covetousness when he talks about “the rich”. True Christianity rejoices in good fortune for others AND voluntarily gives to benefit those less fortunate.
Any comparison of the giving records of Republican and Democrat politicians shows that Republicans give many multiples to charity what Democrats give. Mitt Romney’s tax returns showing that he gave $7 million to charity are just the latest confirmation of that. Republicans give their own money. Democrats express their generosity by forcefully taking “Other People’s Money” (see my previous post).
