When Jesus started his ministry he began with the words: "'good news to the poor'". Luke 4:18 (NRSV)
He did not say tax cuts for the rich.
He did not say the poor are all bludgers and addicts.
He did not say trickle-down economics.
He did not say: "You don't work you don't eat."
He said: "'Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.'" Matthew 6:26 (NRSV)
Oscar Romero said: "When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist."
Jesus met the same fate.
[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved.]
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