Dear Scott,

Relative to referenced, I am writing to express appreciation and my compliments for your show on RedStateTalkRadio.com and ScoreRadioNetwork.com   Great job!

I would particularly affirm and commend your selection of George Allen who is a candidate for U.S. Senate, as I understand it.  This guy really gets it!  I sincerely hope you have him back on your show frequently.  We need more true Americans like George in our government.

Additionally, I would offer some food for thought on one subject you covered toward the end of the show.

I noticed you are falling into a pattern so many seem to embrace on the subject of welfare, and the vulnerable in our society.  I have to take exception to your approach on this, and cite Scripture references for your edification, or else risk burning any bridges we might otherwise build with this discussion and debate.

I would ask that you consider my opposition to your self-righteous attitude on this as coming from my heart, and not mean spirited for the sake of raw criticism.  This solves nothing.

While you berate and deride those in the great unwashed of our society as being a method of subsistence by choice, I would remind you that not all people are so fortunate to control their own destinies at will, to which you seem to have alluded in your diatribes.  The Scriptures tell us that the poor we will have with us always, the proper response to which is not to further cause grief and pain, but to lift them up and provide solutions to their problems from a loving perspective.  You seem to have missed the mark on this.

"Social and environmental change needs a degree of anger to translate concern into effective action. But this impulse needs to be tempered by love. Self-righteousness does not aid change, it merely lets us and others off the hook." - Jonathan Bartley, Environmentalist

Further, we learn from Scriptures that it is not our duty to condemn those less fortunate than ourselves, or take on an attitude of arrogance and piety for our own stations in life. The good Lord giveth, and He also taketh away.

I would recommend a cursory review of the following references, for consideration in further analyses of the subject as referenced.

Psalm 119:21-22,34

Proverbs 29:13,20

Matthew 5:20,41-42,46-47; 7:1-5

Mark 10:21

John 7:24

1 Corinthians 13:3

James 5:9

1 Timothy 6:17-19

1 Peter 4:9

Let me know if you would like to discuss these issues further, to which I would be happy to oblige.

Robert William Butler Jr

Houston, TX 77086
Phone: (281) 973-6863
Fax: (901) 234-9961

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