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Why is it bible-thumpers who are always so against socialised healthcare and welfare? (hexbear.net)

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago

Lotta good stuff being said here but I do have another angle that Ive had to deal with coming from an evangelical family:

On a very deep level they simply decide to believe that only God can come and make things better. Evangelicals are often obsessed with their own zany end of the world bullshit and they will simply fall back on that when pushed on the way their own religious/spiritual beliefs don't align with their political ideology. As far as they are concerned you simply cannot make a system more equitable than capitalism because that's really something only God returning can do. My father is obsessed with the evangelical version of the end of the world (he literally writes his own papers on his theory, last I checked he was trying to tell me we were actually in year 4 or 5 of the last seven years) and while I can get him to agree with socialism in many ways, at the end of the day he doesn't think any of it can manifest without a biblical kingdom on earth scenario.