When the American church helped usher in Social Security, it abdicated its responsibility to care for the poor.

Social Democracy is not a complement to Christianity but an expensive, corrupt and cruel replacement.  Yet most of our spiritual leaders are at best silent and at worst active collaborators fleeing the field of battle.  Social Democracy is in the process of dying a messy death.  Will our Pastors and other leaders rouse themselves to offer God's replacement?  Or simply lobby the state for more, more, more?

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