Should Society Be Forced To Support The Poor, Elderly And Needy?

2nd Thessalonians 3:10-11, “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.”

I can honestly say that our broken American system has given shameful rise to an abundance professional panhandler bums nationwide. They are indeed BUMS! That is, they just refuse to work a job (for whatever reason). We see them on nearly every major intersection across the country, perfectly healthy young people panhandling for money. I refuse to give them a penny! That being said, I saw a woman with both legs amputated last week in a wheelchair, who asked for some money to buy a meal, so I had compassion on her and gave her a Gospel of John and $40 in Jesus' name, because it was obvious that she is disabled.

I posted this article from former Congressman Ron Paul's website which exposes the evils of our government's abusive income tax system in the United States. One of my Facebook friends who is elderly said she disagrees. She thinks that society has a government forced obligation to financially support the elderly, poor and needy. She couldn't be more wrong biblically. The following is my Christian  response to her. 

Like it or not, the original purpose of government was simply to protect our person, property and freedom, nothing more. It was never the intent of our founding fathers that the government care for retirees or the elderly, provide welfare, education, give trillions of dollars to Israel and other foreign countries. Historically it was the churches who cared for the poor. It's not right to force the younger working generation to support the older generation, which is communism. There are many things to consider.

Since 1913 our government leaders have sold us out financially. Adjusting for inflation, in the 81 years between the enactment of the income tax in 1913 to 1994, government spending increased 13,592%! Countless Americans have had their houses stolen from them by the government for failing to pay taxes, which is evil and tyranny. In the Bible, widows were taken in by the church to be cared for. The Bible does not teach welfare for anyone. Families should take care of their own. Other people's problems are not the responsibility of society to fix. That is true liberty!

Here is her reply to the preceding comments that I posted...

The churches these days do not help people financially and I have no one for any help, so I would like to be able to get a job eventually, though I am aged in my sixties but I could not do a job at present. I don't have enough money to be retired.

Here is my biblical reply to her...

Kindly, you are delving into hypothetical scenarios of which anything can be justified. Right doesn't change with circumstances. It is never right to force someone to support other's financially who are struggling. That is why God commands us as Christians to show love, compassion, mercy and grace toward others. The heathen world doesn't care.

One of the worst sins of Sodom was their unwillingness to help care for the poor and needy (Ezekiel 16:49). But just because the inhabitants of Sodom didn't care enough to help the poor and needy doesn't make it okay for the government to turn communist by forcing its citizens to support the unfortunate of society, which would be tyranny. This is why a tyrannical police state of law and order is slowly rising up in the United States, because Americans increasingly refuse to obey God. Those humans who refuse to be governed by God will be ruled over by tyrants.

Dear reader, when a society fails to obey God (and society is comprised of the sum total of all its individual members) chaos follows. People nowadays have all sorts of wrong ideas, suggestions and demands which are the consequence of a wicked culture that has forgotten the authoritative holy God of the inspired written Holy Bible.

Just like moronic fools who refuse to follow the included instructions to assemble a new product, choosing rather to use bubblegum, duck tape and rubber bands instead of the provided proper hardware; so also is our ungodly American culture attempting to solve all of our dire problems with secular psychology, education and a thug police state (more laws and lengthier prison sentences) instead of repenting toward God to obey the inspired Holy Bible (which is God's instruction manual for humanity). It's not that hard top figure out!

Finally, the Truth on National TV when Billy Graham's daughter Anne was being interviewed on The Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her, “How could God let something like this happen?” (Referring to the September 11th Attack in 2001). Miss Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She eloquently and truthfully said:

"I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"

In light of recent events... hurricanes, terrorists attack, school shootings, et cetera. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.

Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school, the Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."

Amen and amen! Anne Graham is 100% correct. If the American people were right with God, we wouldn't need any old folk's homes for elderly people who've been forgotten about by their spoiled brat children. Elderly Americans wouldn't need to journey by bus to Canada to purchase affordable medications that they need. We abuse the elderly in the United States, bringing God's certain judgment upon our nation! But despite the wickedness of American society today, the law must never force anyone to support strangers.

I know that some of my readers will disagree with me, and that's to be expected, but it was never the intent of any government to solve people's problems, educate our children, bail out foreign countries from their money woes and wars, or financially provide welfare. In a heathen humanistic society people look to big government to solve their problems and care for them, but God intended that we look to Him alone to remedy our problems and provide for our needs. Psalms 121:2, “My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.”