So, I grew up in the kind of poverty where the free lunch at school was sometimes the only meal I’d get each day.
My church hated it. They didn’t offer help with food, but they thought that the free lunches was keeping people from being desperate enough to fall for their shenanigans. Me passing out in Monday’s first period from hunger was a good thing, because they say suffering brings you closer to god. Fasting was a good thing, if you’re hungry enough you develop a sort of lightheaded swimmy euphoria that was said to be the holy spirit filling you with god’s love.
It’s why they were against all forms of safety net, it was seen as a sign of disbelief in god’s ability to provide. If god wants you to die homeless on the street, who are we to argue with him?
The kind that watches right wing propaganda 24/7 and is convinced that if billionaires can just make it to trillionaire status and we stop spending a few million on starving kids, we’ll unlock some fanciful utopia of everyone being rich by virtue of working hard.
Plenty of videos of people asking trump supporters and good christians at pro-life rallies to sign petitions to guarantee free lunches and childcare for every kid… With predictable results from the people attending.
Prosperity Gospel nutjobs who think that those who aren’t successful deserve their suffering because they honestly believe that one’s success is directly related to the “will of God” and thus those who suffer deserve their suffering because it is ordained by God.
Nothing in America makes sense, until you look at the world through the lense of Christianity. The denomination who believes existence should be agony without any form of pleasure of any type. (Lutherans? I can’t remember the name.)
Then suddenly, everything falls into place. Low wages, excessive cost of living, the way your boss gloats about tax dodging and wage theft. We’ve been force fed propaganda through every medium available for generations, to the point where the general public pushes against their own best interests, because it’s what we’ve been told is the only way.
The low-level owner class has an engrained core belief that causing suffering brings people closer to god, and helping people causes hedonism and puts people in hell, and the uneducated class that worships them agrees.
The fuck kind of voter does this resonate with?
So, I grew up in the kind of poverty where the free lunch at school was sometimes the only meal I’d get each day.
My church hated it. They didn’t offer help with food, but they thought that the free lunches was keeping people from being desperate enough to fall for their shenanigans. Me passing out in Monday’s first period from hunger was a good thing, because they say suffering brings you closer to god. Fasting was a good thing, if you’re hungry enough you develop a sort of lightheaded swimmy euphoria that was said to be the holy spirit filling you with god’s love.
It’s why they were against all forms of safety net, it was seen as a sign of disbelief in god’s ability to provide. If god wants you to die homeless on the street, who are we to argue with him?
The kind that watches right wing propaganda 24/7 and is convinced that if billionaires can just make it to trillionaire status and we stop spending a few million on starving kids, we’ll unlock some fanciful utopia of everyone being rich by virtue of working hard.
Those in an apocalyptic death cult.
(Roughly 20% to 35% of Americans, the insane Christians)
Plenty of videos of people asking trump supporters and good christians at pro-life rallies to sign petitions to guarantee free lunches and childcare for every kid… With predictable results from the people attending.
Prosperity Gospel nutjobs who think that those who aren’t successful deserve their suffering because they honestly believe that one’s success is directly related to the “will of God” and thus those who suffer deserve their suffering because it is ordained by God.
Morons, basically.
My BIL told me he could’ve been as rich and successful as Trump, but he just didn’t have it in him to work that hard day in and day out.
Meanwhile, Trump just had his 101st golf outing this past weekend. Nearly a quarter of his current term has been on the links.
Assholes who want nothing more but to inflict pain at home so they can afford to torture children abroad
Nothing in America makes sense, until you look at the world through the lense of Christianity. The denomination who believes existence should be agony without any form of pleasure of any type. (Lutherans? I can’t remember the name.)
Then suddenly, everything falls into place. Low wages, excessive cost of living, the way your boss gloats about tax dodging and wage theft. We’ve been force fed propaganda through every medium available for generations, to the point where the general public pushes against their own best interests, because it’s what we’ve been told is the only way.
The low-level owner class has an engrained core belief that causing suffering brings people closer to god, and helping people causes hedonism and puts people in hell, and the uneducated class that worships them agrees.
The Calvinists I believe are more in that vein.
The kind who only had children out of a sense of cultural/religious obligation and hate all children as a result, including their own.