They knew what the cash flows would be in the future.  They even knew in the 80s when they stupidly kept the Reagan tax cuts and backloaded a Social Security surplus as a way to eventually force rich people to subsidize Social Security with the general fund.

If you want to be a Cafeteria Catholic, go ahead and embrace it, but Jesus spoke more about poverty than sex, as did the prophets (Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, et al), so I would worry about which food line was in if I were you.