anotherlife
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I disagree. We started welfare to help ww2 widows and orphans and I’m sure they argued it was the Christian thing to do.I’m very judgemental of Christians and even I don’t consider shopping this guy a sin. And you do know welfare abuse infuriates a lot of good people.You guys sound like horrible Christians all of you. You for not getting it. We have these programs where you can “shop” someone who’s abusing the system.He got caught only because he to.d his friend who shopped him for money. I thought the Bible warned against self righteousness.
I will give you this. The guy who shopped him might do the same thing if he were in the other guys shoes. True.
Aren’t there stories where parents have called the police on their own kids?
I would probably need to refer to the Biblical judgement clause that reserves it to God. That is fundamental to Christianity. If you shop your friend then you have made a judgement about your friend so you broke the foundation, and therefore you will be judged too as per the belief.
If you are afraid that your friend or child hurts you or your stuff then you would call the police but that is self defense so very difference. Even government investigators are not allowed to do fishing for crooks, by law, by the way.
I don’t feel bad for the guy who got shopped. Everyone cheating should hear this story.
But he was his friend. He could have told him to stop first. That would have been Cristian. Interestingly, true Christian belief would prohibit you from reporting, unless you are in danger from it. Also, government run programs, welfare or other, don't qualify for a good deed as per Christianity, because they are enforced by power instead of given by a community's good will. Not really godly.
Oh, and you just proved my point. You Christians don’t even view welfare as the christianly thing to do. You just said it yourself. People like you don’t even like seeing people buying food with foodstamps let alone “shopping” them? You just answered your own question why he shopped him. He hates welfare
I agree, but Christianity teaches not to react just because you don't like something. Welfare is indeed not Christian, because it is forced. The problem is that he didn't warn him first, he assumed that he was a criminal, which is a judgement, even if it happened to be correct. That way he will be judged too, so he broke the Christian fundamentals, in this logic.