An excerpt on the subject of charity from a book I'm reading.

Posted by: Deane F on 12 December 2004

"So-called charity, with its implicit assumptions of high and low, is no remedy to injustice, but its willing accomplice. Charity allows the privileged the opportunity to buy the silence of their consciences for a few coins (with the added bonus of much to-do being made of their philanthropy) - rather than wrestle with why, in a world of plenty, they wallow in pampered luxury through no particular virtue of their own, while most of the world is in rags, starving, and living in shacks. Jesus advised the rich man to sell everything he had and give it to the poor. The numerous charities operating under his name ever since have set a significantly lower standard."

- "The Watch", a novel by Dennis Danvers.

Posted on: 13 December 2004 by John Sheridan

I think we've already proved that communism doesn't work but perhaps you'd like to take your message to the one of the richest nations on earth - the Vatican.