It’s always puzzled me and reading a thread on reddit just how has reignited that puzzlement. Someone on reddit asked people opposed to universal healthcare to explain why and the conservatives in the thread have given reasons like they don’t want to wait their turn for treatment, and that people don’t have an intrinsic right to live, along with the usual “WHY shOUld i PAy fOR YouR HealTHcarE?”
Christians seem to lead the charge with objections such as these. And in my experience of asking for help accessing food, Christians were the cruellest and the least likely to help.
I just don’t understand how someone claims to follow Jesus but holds beliefs like this. When Jesus handed out the loaves and fishes, did he check everyone’s employment and tax status first, and only feed those who were working and paying tax? When he healed the sick and disabled, did he make sure they had health insurance first and refuse to treat those who couldn’t pay?
What makes these people such incredible hypocrites?
My roommate is a somewhat christian socialist and the rants I have heard from him about calvinism are legendary
I’ve been getting on this same train lately. Calvinism and its offshoots are outright heresy in my opinion, so antithetical to Christ’s actual message are they. What the fuck happened to “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into Heaven”?
(And don’t even get me started on, “what you do to the least of these, you do also to me”)
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True, but they seem to have at least retained more of the caring-for-the-poor concept, even if their actual methods of doing so have, historically, often been horrific, and even though their massive wealth has made their efforts hypocritical at best and has similarly situated them on the wrong side of Christ’s ideas. (Not trying to defend the Catholic Church here at all, really–I also take great issue with the obsession with sexual purity in both protestant and Catholic churches; that all comes from Paul, who, last I checked, was not Jesus.)
It was their extremely stupid attempt to resolve the contradiction of “God is all powerful, knows everything, has seen all that was and will be” with “I have free will.”
Their resolution? Get rid of the free will part. A not so subtle solution to an inherent contradiction or inadequacy of a mortal pondering the divine.
You ever had so much difficulty doing something that you just toss all your progress in the trash and start over with a simpler thing? That was the move.