Comments on: But They Don’t Deserve It! (August Synchroblog)

By: Random Acts of Linkage #74 : Subversive Influence

Random Acts of Linkage #74 : Subversive Influence — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:59:16 +0000

[...] Petersen’s synchroblog entry on poverty. “The Gospel takes away our right, forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the [...]

By: Don

Don — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:08:28 +0000

It’s hard not to have those thoughts of trying to qualify if someone deserves that which I have to give. But I guess the bottom line is that what I have really isn’t mine, but it belongs to God. And what would God do with what is God’s?

Peace.

By: jimmie

jimmie — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:38:07 +0000

Thank you for a new perspective on this. What you say makes sense, especially in our day and age – the poor are outside the system, just like Christ is.

By: Steve Hayes

Steve Hayes — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:29:44 +0000

I think it was St John Chrysostom who said that when you give money to a beggar you shouldn’t try to work out whether he will buy food with it, or spend it on booze or glue or something undeserving. Just give, and God will sort out the rest. But in spite of that I still have “deserving/undeserving” thoughts.