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>What would motivate someone to intentionally prevent poor people from helping themselves? A theology that holds that god rewards the just and thus the poor mu
by Avshalom 9y ago
>What would motivate someone to intentionally prevent poor people from helping themselves?
A theology that holds that god rewards the just and thus the poor must be so because they're wicked and/or a fucked up reading of the phrase "the poor will always be with you"
A desire to 'prove' an economic philosophy that the poor brought it on themselves by creating a self perpetuating spiral of doom and then pointing to people that get caught in it as proof.
Racism and a general supposition that these policies affect those people over there to a sufficient degree that these people over here are an acceptable loss.
Just being a fucking dick.
- throwanem 9y agoYes. This is why you find people of Christian faith volunteering to...you know what, never mind. I wish I lived in a world as simple as the one you seem to.
- jacquesm 9y agoVolunteering is not limited to people of Christian faith.
- rayiner 9y agoI mean, religion isn't a homogeneous thing. There are folks like the ones in the article, for sure, but there are also ones who buy into the whole gospel of prosperity thing.
- throwanem 9y agoTell that to your grandparent commenter.
- Avshalom 9y agohttps://www.statnews.com/2017/03/03/roger-marshall-kansas-obamacare/ https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/03/roger-marshall-kansas-ob... >“Just like Jesus said, ‘The poor will always be with us,’” he said. “There is a group of people that just don’t want health care and aren’t going to take care of themselves.” >Pressed on that point, Marshall shrugged. No seriously, some people have a really fucked up reading of "the poor will always be with us" and some of those people are actually in charge of things. for some context on that particular bible quote: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2017/03/03/ignorant-jerks-abusing-poor-will-always-will-always/ http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2017/03/03/ignorant... Jesus is solid on this one, that doesn't mean people don't build their beliefs on some weird interpretations of what some one once told them Jesus said.
- throwanem 9y agoI'm not sure why it makes sense to dismiss the entire faith on the basis of some sinners who twist Christ's words against Christ's example. I hope for the sake of his soul that he doesn't realize what he's doing.
- Avshalom 9y agoI... didn't?
- throwanem 9y agoYou...kind of did? I mean, I get that the people you're talking about call themselves Christian, but they no more merit taking at their word on the matter than if I say I'm vegan while halfway through a porterhouse. You know Mark and Deuteronomy. Do you know Matthew? "You shall know them by their fruits." And: "[T]hen will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." Christ himself would not call these men Christian. Why should you or I take them at their word when they call themselves so?
- Avshalom 9y ago
- SwellJoe 9y agoYou should read up on the prison industrial complex. I think a very strong case can be made that homelessness, and the implicit threat of homelessness, is part of the prison pipeline.