I did.
I just wanted to make sure that others recognized that what Christ said was most definitely not an excuse for apathy. He was born into a poor family, not by accident I am sure.
You will get an argument on that subject from some Protestants, who seem to believe that he had a rather comfortable life.
I've noticed that some Christians these days think that poverty is contagious. If you don't make eye contact with a poor person and definitely don't come near them, you won't get it. It is like they're warding off evil spirits.
If you tithe, you won't be affected by poverty.
If you say "In Jesus name we pray" then your prayer won't be 'stolen' and used by the Devil. (Someone actually told me that. Um, believe in magic, much? lol)
Make no mistake Lanya, there are Catholics who believe similar things concerning Jesus and poverty as well.
I always laugh a little when people wish their families were like the Holy Family. Imagine that. First, the wife is a teenager who has a child out of wedlock and by another father. The husband is likely much older. You are a poor family (we know this both historically as Nazareth was a poor town at the time, and Biblically by the offering Mary gave at the temple for her infant Son). You already had to flee to Egypt for a long while. Now, if you're Mary, your son is a radical. There are no questions about that. His ministry is one that pulls no rhetorical punches. The conservatives of their day in Jewish society were the Pharisees and to a degree, the Sadducees. Jesus turns their world upside down to a degree that they are content to see him crucified under the Roman death penalty. It is a rather harsh society where Christ prevents an adulteress from being stoned to death, he befriends a harlot, a tax collector, beggars, the dregs of the times.
Those people wish to be like Mary and Joseph? Yeah right. I'm guessing that they wish to have God's favor without the pain and suffering that went with being Mary or Joseph. Wordsworth called Mary, "our tainted nature's solitary boast" but imagine how difficult her life really was.