[mr.fundamental]

I really appreciate your patience and hope you can continue to overlook our narrow perspectives. But you think the Church is going down do you? Maybe the following will make you feel better about it.
Matthew 16:18 (KJV)
18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Should I even mention the fact that the good folks there in the early Church as described in Acts, lived in a theocracy? There was no income tax, nor was there government housing, free college, food, clothing, health insurance/care, transportation, cell phones, or state sponsored sex change operations for prisoners. The people of Israel in that day gave to the Church and the Church made distributions to the hungry.

As far as I know anybody who needs assistance here in the US has to but go to the welfare office, and help is forthcoming. We all know that there are good people who don't game the system and none of us would deny them the help they need. Nonetheless, there are many incurably irresponsible parents who sell their food stamps to buy things like cigarettes drugs and beer, leaving their children to suffer in hunger. So aside from government's blind support of a billion dollar a year welfare fraud industry in just giving stuff away, there is a role for the Church to play in the area of benevolence and I'm sure most of them rise to the occasion accordingly. But, if I might ask, are you speaking of help to gain one's financial footing, or across the board redistribution of wealth? Perhaps you are referring to the efforts that the various US benevolence entities make to feed the poor of other lands? All of these things happen daily here in America. Have you sold all your possessions and given the money to the poor, or maybe it would just be best to give as much as you can on a weekly basis to them?

It is the heart of the matter. The jewish people wanted a theocracy 1st and 2nd kings as well as the prophets tell of the story. Didn't work out so well, as we all know. A theocracy is not the answer if it was, the previous two books would not be useful.

Who owns the wealth of America?