Christians against the redistribution of wealth and other things I don't get
So... where's the part of the Bible where it says "thou shalt not tax me for working hard" or "blessed are the poor, for they have an extra-special opportunity to work harder", or whatever it is that correlates so strongly with fundamentalism? I'm really confused
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The right-wingers have been putting themselves forward as those who want to protect traditional values on all sorts of issues which blatantly don't really matter to them anything like as much as they make out. Issues like abortion, gay rights, sex education, and sex and violence on television. All of these are made out to be religious issues. The right-wing have been putting this forward and connecting it with right-wing politics for so long that the two have become massively connected in the public consciousness and also (and this is perhaps more important) massively connected organisation-wise. It seems to me (and I could be wrong) that there are now strong ties between right-wing religious groups and right-wing political figures in the US.
There's now this rhetoric which puts godless liberals/socialists/communists! and everything they stand for in direct contrast with good old Christian salt of earth Republicans and everything they stand for - the American dream.
It practically seems like brainwashing when you can have someone boasting about their poor father working himself to death with no access to decent healthcare and saying: “The cancer still grows. That is the American dream.” (Not that good Chritian (or otherwise) right-wing entrepreneur philanthropists stepped in to help out their fellow American citizen, but that the American dream is cancer killing you while you work more hours than there are in the day. And she's talking about her own father! Ugh!)
But yeah, just keep on celebrating your right to work 70 hours a week while slowly dying from cancer, you fucking psychos.
Ah, you had the same example in mind.
I'm reminded of something said by Giles Fraser. He's the chancellor at St. Pauls who recently allowed the UK "Occupy" movement to use the grounds of St. Pauls in London for their tents. He's since resigned in protest when the Church authorities decided that they should allow the police to remove the protesters from the area.
Anyway, Giles Fraser once said: "Christian Right is neither".
He also noticed the anti-semitism in "Apocalypto" and confirmed for me that some rules regarding civil weddings in the UK are related to continuing Church control. But I'm rather getting off the point now.
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