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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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[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's assume the western Christian or, to oversimplify things, the Protestant, that supports these beliefs (though Orthodox and Catholics can be considered 'protestant' if they believe in the following things)

Let us consider the actual western Christian – not the general one , as {everyone} does, but the everyday Protestant.

Let us not look for the secret of the Protestant in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Protestant.

What is the secular basis of Protestantism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Protestant? Overwork. What is his worldly God? Capital.

Very well then! Emancipation from Overwork and capital, consequently from practical, real Protestanism, would be the self-emancipation of our time.

An organization of society which would abolish the preconditions for Capital, and therefore the possibility of Capital, would make the Protestant impossible.

(if you know which text this comes from)

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

In other words, western Christianity has become a religious smokescreen to justify western Capital, the economic basis that allows its religion to prevail, especially in western colonial countries that have engaged in settler-colonialism (Amerikkka) or extractivist-imperialism (Britain).

When they tell ye give up to all in austerity or ascetism, for the door of heaven shall be upon ye, it is western Capital that tells ye this.