• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      Basic Income as an obligation on the public sector would mean a smaller pool of residents with heavy obligation to private church groups and religious charities that recruit out of low income communities.

      Nobody’s going to come to the Sermon On The Mount if you can get your loaves and fishes anywhere.

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        and did Jesus decree, be strategic with when ye help those in need, so that they turn to private churches. No I don’t think that’s in there.

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          On the contrary, I think he said something about wherever two or three of his faithful gather in his name, so there is his church.