[Grovenet] Genesis 4:9

[David Morelli]

Yes,  but the need may be distant from your home.  To that end, you  
need a Red Cross, Marshall Plan, Katrina relief, Civil Rights  
movement, community organizers, organized charities, etc.

David

On Sep 4, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Carol Morgan wrote:

> I agree with everything that you have said David.  But where I  
> think Dems and Republicans would differ, is that no we are not our  
> brother's keeper, we are our brother's BROTHER.  After all, this is  
> SATAN talking, and what he does is take a good idea, like being  
> charitable and caring, to be something that translates it into a  
> counterfiet of that, IE perhaps something that isn't from the heart  
> but is mandated from the government.  This removes the sense that  
> it is charity, when it is forced.  I am not serving my brother, I  
> am serving the government by becoming his "keeper" like a prison,  
> where I answer to the governmen who actually sees to his needs and  
> simply tells me what to do. It removes my role as performing  
> charity out of love for my neighbor and simply doing what I am told  
> by a government who steps in and does that for us.
>
> I believe in charity out of the goodness of the human heart,  
> voluntary, and in spare time, rather than mandated obligatory and  
> performed as part of someone's job.