If we think we can still offer food stamps, SSI, and host of other things we give under our Socialist Government and not crumble we are mistaken.I'm looking in from outside, and I have to say I am shocked by the hard-heartedness of many American Christians.
We tried to be a Nice and polite version of Russia... and cover it with a different name.. we have used programs to make people dependent, and put them under control of the Government....
To fix this, people will have to starve, many will die, but enough is enough...
It's time to pay up!!! and Be the free Nation God intended...
Any talk of helping the poor is often met with - 'they should get off their butts and work', 'why should our taxes go on hand-outs'...etc etc,
The most lovely, hospitable, caring people we stayed with while on a soccer coaching tour a few years back with would come out with the most incredible, un-Christ-like statements when talking about the poor, immigrants, outcasts, criminals in their society.
The thing is, do Americans have the same Bible over there?!?! Almost every other page from Genesis through to Revelation talks about caring for the poor, the orphan, the widow. And look at Jesus and how he dealt with tax collectors, prostitutes etc...
Obama, I believe, is a good man who is trying to right some of the hideous inequalities in American society. I was in downtown Philadelphia doing football coaching with kids and it reminded me of the slums in Brazil. That surely is wrong for the richest country in the world?
So it will cost Americans. So he is doing it at a time where due to the rampant greed and idolatry that has ruled Western culture there are crippling debts to be paid. It doesn't mean he is wrong to do it. And it doesn't mean that the poorest should suffer most for the greed of the richest (like is happening here now with councils cutting care-services for elderly and vulnerable youth).
I think many American Christians need to take a good long look at themselves, with God's eyes. And ask is my attitude Christ-like???
Not saying UK Christians are perfect, we have our own problems (hypocrisy, materialism, love of comfort).
