I cannot remember Jesus being an advocate for organizing the government to provide charity. It was the government, encouraged by religious leaders, that organized His execution. Maybe the part of the Bible supporting the left was lost along with the Eleventh Commandment. Number eleven was discovered by an archeologist named Marx: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
Mr. Tooley is very ambitious in his attempts at self-defense. The most tiring aspect of arguing with a liberal is first addressing the ideas that contain questionable or false assumptions. The gauntlet of false assumptions and loaded presumptions is intended to present the defender with hurdles on the uneven playing field that liberals always pretend to loath.
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