Giving spirit

Dear Editor,

The news lifted the spirit. We needed that.

Thank you Warren, Warren County, the residents of all 50 states who contributed to WARREN GIVES plus thank you to the sponsors, organizers and promoters of this remarkable event.

The organizations help others in a Good Samaritan way, a “do unto others” way.

Our nation’s history is littered with hypocrisy and contradictions but WARREN GIVES’ record breaking contributions is consistent with one of Warren’s and of our nation’s traditional, better values.

Anthropology shows that generosity and hospitality and being “my brother’s keeper” is not new. Past cultures had, and all major religions have, these social justice virtues.

Our western civilization is based on Judo-Christian principles and our WARREN GIVES is compliant with Jesus’ second commandment of “loving your neighbor as yourself.” That there is a We and not merely Me.

Some 95% of the people during Jesus’s earthly time lived in poverty. The poor and their needs is the second most popular topic among Jesus’s Biblical references. He espoused social justice.

Among our current national Christian contradictions are our federal government’s elimination of USAid, which gave world wide, life saving aid to those most needy and the Trump Administration’s mean spirited, immigration policies which deny habeas corpus/due process rights to those seeking safe haven.

Furthermore, the current proposed GOP “One Big Beautiful Budget Bill” includes significant anti social justice cuts, all in direct opposition to the spirit of WARREN GIVES.

House Speaker Johnson recently on “Face the Nation,” said it “was moral to throw the working poor and unemployed off Medicaid,” which is not compliant with Jesus’s second commandment and it is not moral.

Again, thank you WARREN GIVES. We needed the reminder of our roots, of what we can do and what we should be doing.

Don Scott,

North Warren