Robin Hood WAS chased by the law. Also, we don't live in medieval England where peasants lived at the point of a noble's sword.
What you seem to be missing, which Moros explained, and which I don't remember or don't understand was whether or not this guy represented himself as a charity in which the people who donated assumed their money would be going entirely to Haiti - not to line the pockets of some kid living in the US who has adequate food, medical supplies, indoor plumbing and access to heating and AC. If he said outright "I'm getting 25% of this" and they still gave - well, that's no snot out of my nose because they did it fully knowing where their money was going. If they didn't, it is a gross abuse of their trust. They gave out of their pockets because they understood that someone had much less than they did. This man doesn't. He might have less to some small degree, but nowhere near the level of poverty which hit Haiti and which so many of these same Christians were saying was a "punishment" for something that if I recall happened 200 years or so ago. This man doesn't need their money - even for his "efforts." The money certainly didn't come from God. It came from people who earned it and acted the way thoughtful human beings should. Exactly how hard is it to wander around with a collecting jar anyway, Soph?
If someone strives for "full good" and only "some good" comes out of it - then I give you "some good". But if someone only gives "some good" when they could have given "full good"...that gets suspect to me.
I abhor two things when it comes to charity: people who feel the need to see gratitude from people by alleviating suffering, and people who feel the need to crow about their "good works". He's crowing. God didn't give him that money. He's showing that he "earned" something through "doing good" for other people. "Look at how much better I am than you!" he's really saying.
I'd have called him a "good Christian" if he gave everything over, understanding his home hasn't been wiped out and turmoil cast over his whole country for years to come, and said "it's what I ought to do."
What you seem to be missing, which Moros explained, and which I don't remember or don't understand was whether or not this guy represented himself as a charity in which the people who donated assumed their money would be going entirely to Haiti - not to line the pockets of some kid living in the US who has adequate food, medical supplies, indoor plumbing and access to heating and AC. If he said outright "I'm getting 25% of this" and they still gave - well, that's no snot out of my nose because they did it fully knowing where their money was going. If they didn't, it is a gross abuse of their trust. They gave out of their pockets because they understood that someone had much less than they did. This man doesn't. He might have less to some small degree, but nowhere near the level of poverty which hit Haiti and which so many of these same Christians were saying was a "punishment" for something that if I recall happened 200 years or so ago. This man doesn't need their money - even for his "efforts." The money certainly didn't come from God. It came from people who earned it and acted the way thoughtful human beings should. Exactly how hard is it to wander around with a collecting jar anyway, Soph?
If someone strives for "full good" and only "some good" comes out of it - then I give you "some good". But if someone only gives "some good" when they could have given "full good"...that gets suspect to me.
I abhor two things when it comes to charity: people who feel the need to see gratitude from people by alleviating suffering, and people who feel the need to crow about their "good works". He's crowing. God didn't give him that money. He's showing that he "earned" something through "doing good" for other people. "Look at how much better I am than you!" he's really saying.
I'd have called him a "good Christian" if he gave everything over, understanding his home hasn't been wiped out and turmoil cast over his whole country for years to come, and said "it's what I ought to do."
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