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

submitted 1 week ago by DisabledAceSocialist@hexbear.net to c/chat@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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[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What other people said, but also white chauvinism. Black Methodist churches and Roman Catholic churches aren't socialist, but they don't advocate against social welfare or healthcare. (Some would very much like that.)

It's the white Evangelists and similar Protestant groups that rally against anything good for people. Any sort of government assistance will help minorities, so it must be stopped to preserve white hegemony. Even if poor whites will also massively be helped, that's less important than preserving racial hierarchy.

Also add in a dash of Cold War propaganda associating any social welfare with "atheist socialism." The West spent a lot of time and money boosting conservative Christians to make socialism evil.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

and they spread that shit all over the global south. Protestants are the second largest and fastest growing religious group in much of Latin America.