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?

  • CleverOleg [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 days ago
    1. Take a group of Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
    2. Allow them to develop a form of Judaism on their own that prioritizes their own wants, needs, and outlook
    3. Let it cook for 300 years

    Just imagine how deranged that form of Judaism would be. But in some ways that would be unfair to say the primary problem is religion when all that religion did was facilitate the racism and white supremacy that was existent, and was fueled by their material interests. That’s basically the story of White Evangelical Christianity in America, but I’m using the settler example to show how it originates and grows.

    I’m not even a fan of any form of Christianity, but the reality is that the form of White Evangelical Christianity that makes up ~25% of the US population is just part of the superstructure built on settler colonialism and white supremacy.