How are you going to fix the Catholic Church? Or any church for that matter?

[Cleita]

13. I had a discussion with a christian church goer (not a Catholic) at the gym

about it yesterday. She's the usual Fox News listener who bitches about paying taxes, but she and her husband are very well off. I talked about the homeless problem not being addressed in our County and how the sequestration was going to make matters worse. She said her church has programs just for that. I asked her if her church was going to be able to step up to the plate and replace the programs that are going to be cut. She said why don't those people get jobs? I said you mean babies who are not going to be able to get formula they need because their parents, who are working, can't afford it?

She didn't know that, but of course because you wouldn't get that on Fox News. I then replied we have to step up as a community to help those less fortunate than us and that means everyone, not just your church or other churches, but us as a community and that takes government and taxes. Churches are supposed to take care of people's spiritual needs. We the people are supposed to take care of the material needs of all citizens and again that requires government and taxes.

At that point she jumped off the treadmill without a word and walked away. My point though was Church is fine if it does what it's supposed to, minister to the spiritual needs of its members. It's up to us the people to perform the works of mercy, that of feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and so on and so on. It doesn't matter if we are atheist, christian, jew, buddhist, scientologists, etc., we need to bond together as community to get those things taking care of and that requires government and taxes that fund social programs.