Christians twice as likely to blame a person's poverty on lack of effort, poll finds.

[Akamai]

Interesting results! Maybe this is one reason the right-wing Christians supported Trump?

Any thots?

From: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christians-poverty-blame-lack-effort-twice-likely-us-white-evangelicals-faith-relgion-a7875541.html

"Christians – especially white evangelicals - apparently much more predisposed to believe it's your own fault if you're poor.

"Which is generally more often to blame if a person is poor: lack of effort on their own part, or difficult circumstances beyond their control?

"The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation asked 1,686 American adults to answer that question - and found that religion is a significant predictor of how Americans perceive poverty.

"Christians are much more likely than non-Christians to view poverty as the result of individual failings, especially white evangelical Christians.


""There's a strong Christian impulse to understand poverty as deeply rooted in morality - often, as the Bible makes clear, in unwillingness to work, in bad financial decisions or in broken family structures," said Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. "The Christian world view is saying that all poverty is due to sin, though that doesn't necessarily mean the sin of the person in poverty. In the Garden of Eden, there would have been no poverty. In a fallen world, there is poverty.""

[Duppers]

1. I've observed this phenomenon

Among the most self-righteous.

[madokie]

2. The most hateful, bigoted and xenophobic people I know are so called Christians

I've gotten to where when I hear someone who fits this I ask where they go to church, some answer, some don't. The all know I busted them though

[haele]

4. I use "Evilangelical" to reference the subset of Christians that follow the Profits.

They are also the ones who believe in putting a price tag on everyone and support Slavery for anyone who isn't strong enough or wealthy enough to buy or protect their own freedoms (which include their own mothers and children).

Haele

[TheBlackAdder]

3. 2-State Baptism types believe that if you're overlooked by God, it must be something with you.

[SDJay]

5. Just Like Jesus!

These people don't follow the teachings of Jesus as they appear in the bible. They are fans for Repulican Jesus, who's a hateful bigot who loves Faux News.

[dawg]

6. This is specifically a Calvinist thing, not a general Christian thing.

Although many non-Calvinist denominations have allowed some of this to creep into their thinking.

If you ask me, they use this notion to justify their own unwillingness to help. They *know* Christ taught generosity and compassion for the less fortunate. The only way they can justify their inaction and still call themselves "Christians", is to convince themselves that most of the poor are somehow "undeserving" and that their poverty is by their own choice.