> the government is at a better scale to provide But it's not. Never has been. They're firing federal workers because of the deficit, national debt, Deep Stat

> the government is at a better scale to provide But it's not. Never has been. They're firing federal workers because of the deficit, national debt, Deep State issues, crumbling empire typical issues, man. The only ‘volunteers’ the government provides are military forces! I have never once met anyone at church who says that Uncle Sam conscripted them into a ministry! Good God, can you imagine a bishop conscripting priests and colluding with the military to make them chaplains? The State has always relied on Subsidiarity to provide charity or welfare. The federal level is a last resort, an emergency safety net when Subsidiarity and every other non-profit and religion fails to fill the gap. The New Deal and all the social service programs here in USA and UK as well have arisen in a secular context just to ensure that churches wouldn’t get too powerful and conversely, that citizens wouldn’t feel obligated or beholden to faith-based charities who were providing many of their basic needs. But c’mon. No state is realistically capable of doing charity at scale. Basically impossible. Therefore we re-invent church tax. Just look at the shitty situation of health care as the Secular West wrests it from Christian hegemony and literally needs to eviscerate Hippocrates. Many places with established religions just have the government funding that religion, and it’s not a tangled web like what we’re weaving in 2025. Disestablishmentarianism simply means “we’ll eventually need to reinvent religion in some form.”