What "helping people take personal responsibility" really means in these times
It means that when we cut programs that help the those in poverty and those in need that a conservative Christian candidate is telling us a rationalization designed to overcome the pangs of conscience most people, regardless of their belief, would have about abandoning the less fortunate or allowing their circumstances to deteriorate that further.
That's the irony. The most conservative Christian politicians in our country have worked tirelessly over a couple decades to work against the idea that we help each other and help those in need, instead trumpeting the ironic message (considering the source) that we're all better off looking out for ourselves and being selfish, if you will, instead.
And furthermore, whereas many evangelical conservatives a couple of decades ago opposed cuts to welfare because they thought it would lead to more abortions, they abandoned that and now support the most draconian cuts to programs and support to poor women and their children --even though that probably does lead to more abortions --as does opposing birth control. Or without access to either, children with miserable circumstances to grow up in, through no fault of their own --punished if you will, to prove a political point.
That today in 2012, the most vocally Christian candidates in our nation are generally the ones campaigning on the messages most opposed to their claimed leader (Jesus) and that Atheists and beleaguered and outnumbered liberal Christians (the ones apparently taking the most liberties with Christian doctrine) are the ones imploring us to take care of each other and the poor is a cruel irony to me.
And years of being surrounded by it at church has poisoned my church experience so badly that I finally stopped going in order to stop hearing and remembering it.
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