[thecavemaster]

I hope he has mercy on you for doubting his existence. Yes he did help the poor, but he also said that if a man would not work, he would not eat. That's the part that mankind has screwed up. Man's version is, if he won't work, get on the draw. Jesus said a man should work, and that's the way it is. People too lazy to work don't deserve one red cent of taxpayers money.

Actually, Saul of Tarsus said that. His mercy extends to the bad and good, to the just and unjust (rain and sunshine) according to jesus. The gentried, land owning rich were supposed to leave the edges of the crop for the poor to gather ("gleanings"). I do not support welfare per se. The "gleanings" idea is a recognition of the unfairness of human economies, but also a recognition that working for the provision is necessary.