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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] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.)