Social Insecurity

Years of observation have convinced me that every government-run social program is fundamentally flawed. Any time you forcibly require people to contribute to a cause, no matter how well intentioned, you undercut God's design. We are all created with an abundance of compassion. However, exercising it requires free will. Conscription suppresses the joy that would otherwise result from doing what God created us to do. Jesus, when asked about the greatest commandment, said this:

 “... you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”  - Mark 12:29-31

 When I discuss this with people, I'm usually asked, "but what about those who don't believe in God?" or something similar.  My reply is that rejection of God is a fatal error from which there is no recovery, other than to come to saving faith in Christ. People who willfully reject God and thereby reject His perfect design for social behavior are condemning themselves to accept a poor substitute. The best they can hope for is a pitiful attempt to patch over the most obvious problems, that will ultimately fail. Our government agencies react like a kid playing gopher at an arcade. Every time a problem pops up they whack it with a hammer, but there is no end of problems, and eventually the time and money run out.