Divine Wind
Platinum Member
Since you are an avowed atheist and often anti-Christian, I find your assumptions presumptuous. It'd be like me dictating to Jews or Muslims what I think they believe or what they should believe.You've just made the age old conservative attempt at making selfishness noble.
A Christian cannot believe such a thing or they are not a Christian. For you particularly if you aren't a Christian no problem. You act as many animals in nature act in general, survival of your own klan, let the rest die. If you aren't conservative you exhibit the conservative viewpoint, It's a dog eat dog world and if you die while my kids live then tough shit. Again, this is in direct opposition to what Jesus Christ was for those who would dare call themself a Christian.
And isn't it odd that the very people that live a life of dog eat dog are the ones that overwhelmingly claim to be Christian, or religious. Guilt has its day after all. But the guilt isn't enough to change the behavior. I'd simply prefer people be honest with themselves and admit they have no clue who Jesus Christ was or what he taught. That they simply wrap the bible around their godless lives.
The bottom line here is that forcing people to pay for other people their entire lives is wrong. Sure it's noble to help someone who is down, to help minors get a good start in life or to help the sick and elderly. It's not so noble to force people to give up the sweat of their brow in a idealistic attempt to "level the playing field" between those who work and those who choose not to work.
Our system is fucked up right now. It rewards laziness when it should be rewarding hard work. It rewards negligence when it should reward competence. It rewards poor life choices when it should reward smart choices. Yes, there are inequities and those should be corrected, but just throwing Other People's money at it without fixing the actual problems isn't the solution.