Do Jehovah's Witnesses take advantage of this assistance????
"Faith Based" Government Assistance & Jehovah's Witnesses
by minimus 41 Replies latest jw friends
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BurnTheShips
I just saw on TV that Obama is funding faith based programs, I have always thought that this could be an eventual threat to the secularity of the government and freedom of religious expression.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/05/obama.faith.based/
Over the last 8 years many people on the political left were calling the so-called Religious Right the greatest threat to the country. What are they now saying about their avatar of leftism?
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minimus
Bush intiated it.
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daniel-p
Obama is not an "avatar of leftism", despite the hippies who like him. As you and many others have pointed out, he's quite moderate.
But yes, I agree that this faith-based office has no place there. One of the primary reasons why certain religions reach out to communities is to establish common ground in order to enforce their particular brand of morality and basis for salvation. Overall priorities will always be to "save souls" and not to "save lives." This is not to say that they don't do good work, but that the amalgamation of church and state in helping communities does not come without a price.
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BurnTheShips
Yes. He planted many seeds whose bitter fruit we will taste for a long time to come.
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daniel-p
Uhh.. Ok.
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OUTLAW
Minimus..If the WBT$ can find some way to suck money out of the Government..You Know the WBT$ will use the Jehovah`s Witness`s to get at it!..............
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minimus
Does anyone know whether the Society is involved???
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minimus
If JWs were involved with this program, would it violate their being involved with politics or other religions????
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