Because the Protestant work ethic informs the view that poverty is a self-inflicted consequence of moral failure, and therefore a just deserved punishment from God.
To give aid to the undeserving is charity and grace, but only enough aid to give them some relief; not to solve their predicament, otherwise its blasphemous.
Because the Protestant work ethic informs the view that poverty is a self-inflicted consequence of moral failure, and therefore a just deserved punishment from God.
To give aid to the undeserving is charity and grace, but only enough aid to give them some relief; not to solve their predicament, otherwise its blasphemous.