Comments on: Why You Should Never Give to the Poor

By: Smith2000

Smith2000 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:23:00 +0000

You say that like it’s a good thing.

By: Nick T

Nick T — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:33:00 +0000

I wonder if anyone who is against giving to the poor has ever been poor. If you have you wouldn’t say this. Obviously you haven’t been poor. You can both give and help.

By: lina

lina — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:54:00 +0000

yup i agree with you.
We should not help them because they are poor, we should
help them because we share are wealth because we care and because we want to.

By: Olivia Carter

Olivia Carter — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:24:00 +0000

I don’t care if u think all that crap OK??? poor people need to live don’t they? so who ever wrote all that crap about never give money to the poor well your wrong!!!!! what about poor people who have children all the parents want is the child to stay alive but there are people like you who are stopping people living there live and do you know what i call those people?? BASTARDS!!! THAT’S WHO YOU FUCKING ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! like if you agree with me!!

By: Nii-Kootse

Nii-Kootse — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:30:00 +0000

Good with crime you are not at peace with the so much that you have.

By: Nii-Kootse

Nii-Kootse — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:29:00 +0000

You could HELP others to stay up themselves and still benefit you.
But not at CUTTHROAT price. Like even the developed and indutrial scientific nations live today.
With Capitalism at its highest to be a Love Story.

By: Next Starfish

Next Starfish — Sat, 14 May 2011 06:39:15 +0000

Always happy to see the issue of giving and personal responsibility for others being debated.

Pete Singer put it well when he asked ‘would you save a young child you saw drowning in a pond on your way to work’ ? Most people would say yes, even if it meant they ruined their new shoes. By extension, he argues, we should also consider our response to children (and lets not forget the adults) dying from poverty in the developing world – we can save real lives by giving, perhaps for only the cost of a pair of shoes.

Obviously how and where we give is important, and I struggle with the issue of how much should we give.

If you’re the kind of person who simply wouldn’t help the drowning child, then enjoy your life, and if you’re ever faced with a similar situation I hope your selflessness actually takes you by surprise and you save the kid after all.

By: JLM

JLM — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 04:52:41 +0000

Have you ever read The Satanic Bible? What you are saying about natural selection is in there. It’s not Christian or loving or even sane. It’s Libertarian, Ayn Rand garbage! How dare you and your mad tea party friends use such vile hate and call it of Christ!
How come most poor people I know would give you the shirt off there back but give a fool a little cash and he turns into a loud mouthed snob? I feel very sorry for you! If there is a Jesus he is not happy with this choice of yours.
FYI Rand did not believe in God. She called the poor lice and useless. What you said reminds me of a story she told back in the day. Its not biblical!
How would you feel if in a weeks time there was a huge storm that knocked your house down and left you unable to work. Lets say you had to move to a place nobody knew you and all of the people in your new town thought you did something to make yourself sick. They would call you names and spread rumors. Well guess what, that sort of thing happens to people every day!
Nobody likes a hand out but some people have no choice. How come none of you Christians said anything about the single dad in that post? Is it because you do not know his whole story? Did you judge him like you judge single moms? Jesus comes from the line of Lot and his own daughters that got him drunk to have sex with him! If a messed up family like that can be healed then how come you judge a man or woman who as a single parent does there best to do what is right? Do you like abortion? Should the fetus find a job?

By: Zlatko

Zlatko — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:32:39 +0000

Becca, Jesus does not exist! Nobody told you that?

By: Becca

Becca — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:03:12 +0000

First of all, Joe’s comment is DISGUSTING.
Secondly, very good story. Giving is very good, and Jesus does want us to give to others that are not as well off as we are, but notice in the passage when the reapers were ordered to not get the grain from the corners of the field…the grain was never HANDED to the poor people; they poor people had to get it themselves. Teach responsibility, not just accepting handouts.