In the last hundred years, we've completely changed everything ABOUT the human social interactions. The "old ways" wouldn't have worked.
No kidding. That was my point. Inthane was talking about the safety net having leaks and I was just point out that the leaks in the net are more fundamental than government programs missing a few people
So all the Jay's Church have a safety net, but Addison's Church (cause we're all poor) don't?
The poor churches I've attended tended to be far closer nit and better at helping each other out than the rich churches.
A few years back, a church my mother was attending ...
Which is totally irrelevant to the situation but...everyone has an antecdote
Mine is that I spent the first 6 months of my Chirstian life attending a mostly rich white Megachurch on Sunday mornings and an almost all black,poor, pentecostal church on Saturday nights and between the two of them I learned what community was all about.
You're looking at the church; I'm looking at the church as an example of a community that supports each other. Religion doesn't matter, but in our country that religion used to embody that community at some level and we've losed that community and whether you replace it with religion or some other purpose for people to come together, we are far weaker without something that does hold us together