Comments on: Encourage the brethren to lobby Caesar! http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/08/02/encourage-brethren-lobby-caesar/ I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth. Tue, 07 May 2013 18:28:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Goy http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/08/02/encourage-brethren-lobby-caesar/comment-page-1/#comment-86232 Goy Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:27:38 +0000 http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/?p=26286#comment-86232 Not ‘faith in action’ but Calvinism they demand the destruction of Caesar’s welfare state while heretically preaching deprivation gilded with the false promise of divine providence for the poor in the name of welfare reform. A large percentage of those third way stakeholders lobbying for the destruction of the U.K. welfare state are Christian charities hoping to line their own pockets from Caesar’s treasury and the dispossession of the poor.

]]> By: Ben Trovato http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/08/02/encourage-brethren-lobby-caesar/comment-page-1/#comment-86223 Ben Trovato Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:20:59 +0000 http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/?p=26286#comment-86223 I can absolutely see why you made this comment into a blog post. I had missed it as a comment, and am glad that you drew it to my attention.

Fr Bryan Houghton wrote about a sad change that has come over the Church: it used to be that we cared for people; now we care about issues. It is not the same thing…

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