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Governments Are Not Families

By The Daily Dish

Oct 26 2008, 2:30 AM ET

And welfare is no replacement for love. This video by the Acton Institute about Christian stewardship and government welfare makes a strong case against the latter. It helps explain why it is not obviously un-Christian to oppose more than a safety net welfare state and why individual acts of caritas are the only real answers to human spiritual pain:



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