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But, if you want my initial gut feeling, it seems he's setting up the word "charity" to mean "giving that doesn't involve the government, because government is bad" and then using that definition to nail liberals. In my view, any fair redistribution of wealth from the haves to the have-nots is a helpful thing for society regardless of whether the Government facilitates it or not, so limiting "charity" to churches and NGOs is disingenuous.


Forcefully confiscating wealth from the productives for redistribution to the productive-nots is not charity. It's theft.

Whenever anyone feels the need to force charity, then that means the takers are more willing than the givers. And charity is an act of giving, not taking.

You, sir, are the one attempting to redefine the word "charity", in an attempt to align it with a liberal socialist agenda.