Povery
Lord Acton held the conviction, expressed by Christian thinkers throughout history, that poverty is not a merely material problem, but a moral and spiritual problem as well:
The remedy for poverty is not in the material resources of the rich, but in the moral resources of the poor. These, which are lulled and deadened by money-gifts, can be raised and strengthened only by personal influence, sympathy, charity. Money gifts save the poor man who gets them, but give longer life to pauperism in the country.
Lord Acton correctly concluded that simply alleviating the material difficulties of the poor without addressing their spiritual and moral difficulties did not solve the problem of poverty, and in fact had a tendency to worsen it.
Before the creation of the welfare state, poverty relief was provided almost entirely by churches or other local religious associations. That the primary locus of charity should have been religious, and more specifically, Judeo-Christian, is not......
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