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Message   Mike Powell    JIMMY ANDERSON   Re: Socialist "Democrats"   December 4, 2025
 11:11 AM *   

> This is partly how people claim Christian churches are socialist, because
> the strong help the weak. BUT - it's voluntary... And in the first few
> centuries they DID take care of the widows and the orphans.

> Fast forward to today and if the 'church' would do that today... Well...
> We wouldn't need welfare, etc.

It is too bad that they somehow mostly got out of that business.  IMHO,
religious charities seem to care more overall than government ones.

Mike

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