In response to:
“You just don’t get it that the policies that allow the rich to get richer and poor to get poorer are totally unChristian. Jesus was all about helping those who were less fortunate. Sorry, but the democrats hearts are in a more holy place.”
This is the statement from a truly clueless "Christian". We are to help others less fortunate out of our own free will, not have government confiscate the wealth others have worked for. I believer "thou shall not covet they neighbors goods" covers this.
The Bible also mentions it.
Exodus 20:17
“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.
My open letter to my black Christian friends, written out of respect and solidarity, generated an extremely high number of email responses. They ranged from commendation to condemnation, with one email informing me that neither “you nor I are going to alter prophecy, these things are foretold, we have to pray now GOD will get us out of here before masses get destroyed!”
Espiritus offered a unique perspective: “The Black, Youth and Latino ‘vote’ is being used [by the Chinese] for the outcome [of the] 2012 election. . . . Under Komrad Obama, America’s military will be emasculated,...
In NO PLACE in the Bible did Jesus (or God) tell people they MUST give of their money to the GOVERNMENT to help the less fortunate. Individuals help others. Yes Jesus told the Rich man to give away his money to the poor, but it had to be a FREE WILL gift...and he couldn't do it. Government doesn't give us the free will to pay taxes and then spend our money willy-nilly.
And The Good Samaritan did not ask his government to help the wounded victim, but used his own personal wealth. That will be impossible if income is redistributed by our Government, according to their personal wisdom, and intellectual superiority (so they think).