Helping the Poor is Now Apparently Anti-Bible (ACCORDING TO RICK WARREN) 9APR12

THIS perversion of Christianity is disgusting. rick warren might as well come clean and confess he doesn't worship Jesus, he worships wealth and and power and follows a creed based on greed. What a sad, sad commentary on his faith, he is doing Christianity and the teachings of Jesus Christ serious harm. He and his followers should be ashamed. This from Mother Jones and then for some of the actual teachings of Jesus concerning the poor check out my post from last year 9 Jesus Quotes About The Poor from HUFFPOST 15JUL11
http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/9-jesus-quotes-about-poor-15jul11.html

—By Kevin Drum

Rick Warren at a TED talk in 2006. Steve Jurvetson/Flickr

I see that fellow Orange Countian Rick Warren — he of Saddleback megachurch and Purpose Driven Life fame — is in the news again. He was on ABC's This Week yesterday, and Jake Tapper asked him what he thought about President Obama's suggestion that God tells us to care for those less fortunate than ourselves:

Well certainly the Bible says we are to care about the poor....But there's a fundamental question on the meaning of "fairness." Does fairness mean everybody makes the same amount of money? Or does fairness mean everybody gets the opportunity to make the same amount of money? I do not believe in wealth redistribution, I believe in wealth creation.
The only way to get people out of poverty is J-O-B-S. Create jobs. To create wealth, not to subsidize wealth. When you subsidize people, you create the dependency. You — you rob them of dignity.

You know, there's nothing really wrong with a Republican politician saying this. Or a Democratic politician, for that matter. My first preference for helping the poor is indeed to make sure they have decent jobs. Unfortunately, I haven't yet met anyone who has a brilliant plan for making the economy boom on such a sustained basis that jobs are always available for everyone.
But I'm a blogger, not a minister. And while I might not be an expert on the Bible, I've read enough to know that Jesus sure didn't seem to think that helping the poor robbed them of dignity. Can someone help me out here? What part of the gospels do you think Warren is referring to?

Kevin Drum

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