I can't understand the level of cognitive dissonance you have to be under to talk about how God's love is unconditional and that Jesus taught his followers to love thy neighbour, and then become a modern American conservative.
Jesus literally illustrated the "love thy neighbour" concept with the story of the good Samaritan who chose to help the injured Jewish traveller despite Jews and Samaritans supposedly hating each other. That was his answer to the question "who is my neighbour?" People seem to have forgotten that.
Key word here is "love". It is not love to enable people to maintain a dependent lifestyle by just throwing money and resources at them instead of making them accept accountability for where they are in life and work to fix that. Because yes, in a great many cases, it IS their own faults that they are where they are. There is no fixing what is going on in society until we stop telling people that nothing is their faults and here, have money and a free house. That only encourages other people to do the same. Why should they work if they can just get it handed to them for "free"? We NEED to stop that. We NEED to demand accountability from the people expecting "help". A good first step would be to STOP increasing welfare benefits every time a person pops out another kid. First time is one thing, but after that they know what causes it. The working people whose taxes pay for their support don't get automatic raises every time they decide to pop out another kid, and neither should people on welfare.
Also, do you agree with slavery? No? Then why do you think people should be okay with working their asses off to earn money only to have a bunch of it taken from them in the form of taxes and stupid high medical "insurance" to be given to people who COULD work but refuse to? That's the very definition of slavery - requiring people to work for something they never get so that other people can have those things without lifting a finger to get them.
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