CT–Polling Evangelicals: Cut Aid to World’s Poor, Unemployed

Yesterday I wrote about how real faith always leads to action. I agree with what Jim Wallis says below but I also want some follow-up data to this survey, data that would tell me why evangelicals support what they do. Could be that many do believe in supporting the poor and most helpless in our society, just not via governmental agencies. The proof would be in looking at how much and to whom evangelicals as a group give their money.

That said, I absolutely think we need voices like Jim Wallis and Sojourners to be continually vocal in their reminder to us as Christians to care for the least, lost, and most marginalized in society. Real Christian faith is always transformative. Always.

“The moral test of any society is how it treats its poorest and most vulnerable citizens. And that is exactly what the Bible says, over and over again,” said Sojourners president Jim Wallis. “Taking the cutting knife to programs that benefit low-income people, while refusing to scrutinize the much larger blank checks we keep giving to defense contractors and corporate executives, is hypocritical and cruel. I’ll go even further and say that such a twisted moral calculus for the nation’s fiscal policy is simply not fair, and not right. It is not only bad economics, but also bad religion.”

Do take some time to read it all and reflect prayerfully on these data.