What does it say about "the richest Country in the history of the world"...

[Viva_Daddy]

that there exists so much poverty within the Country? Those who still like to claim that America is a "Judeo-Christian Nation" perhaps don't realize how such a statement, considering the number of our poor, amounts to blasphemy. How can you be a Jew or a Christian and be so ignorant of what the Bible says?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. They don't read the good stuff in the bible and deny the bad stuff exists.

[CrispyQ]

2. That the real God in this country is mammon.

[Rex]

3. Same way that some have turned Jesus into a warrior

type that loves war and hates the enemy. Same thing as some that don't know Jesus was a Jew or that he had brown skin and brown hair and brown eyes. Same as when the local pastor cherry picks passages out of the Bible and avoids the ones that contradict his sermon. Or when you see a couple sitting in solid gold thrones on a million dollar stage, begging people to send them money to help keep the lights on.

It is willful ignorance. Also, if they even know one passage from the Bible they will tell you even it says 'the poor shall always be with us' and leave the rest of the words out about HELPING the poor.

[TimberValley]

4. Full disclosure; I'm a Christian.

Many Christians that I see are doing much for the poor. This often goes unnoticed simply because it's not newsworthy. A lot of good deeds are done every day that are not noticed.


I also think we need to consider the amount of poverty in the United States relative to that of other nations. Every country will have poverty. But to what comparative extent?

[tokenlib]

5. Too many "Our Lord of the Sacred Bootstraps" churches..

..damned Gospel of Success hucksters....

[LiberalEsto]

6. All you need to do is walk out of Union Station in Washington DC

to see crowds of homeless people. What an absolute disgrace that these people and so many others are suffering, so close to the Capitol and the White House.

[TimberValley]

7. You can't just look at the poverty level as is. You have to consider what might have been.

To use an analogy, this is like saying, "Obama's stimulus package clearly did nothing to help the economy. Look at the unemployment level today."


You have to consider what things might have been like without it.

[Scuba]

8. If we can't afford to educate our children, to heal our sick or care for our elderly ...

... just what is it the defense budget is defending?

[TimberValley]

10. Death and injury from attack tends to make it even harder to educate or care for the sick. n/t

[Scuba]

11. We lost 3,000 in 9/11. We lose 18,000 a year to lack of health insurance.

[dawg]

9. The elite always use the predominant religion to control the masses.

Here, that happens to be Christianity. In the Middle East it is Islam. The USSR was officially atheist, and still oppressed the masses nonetheless.

There is nothing inherently wrong with these good systems of belief; it is the power of the elite wielding them that is the source of our troubles.