The fire and brimstone people aren’t going to start feeding and clothing the poor.

[phantom power]

But all this article does is show a profound misunderstanding of the psychology of the religious right, and of people generally. Warning: Brooks is at his most treacly with the prose, like he went to the Anthony Kennedy school of writing....

Forget comforting the poor. How about leaving them to die in misery?

I could do this all day. All day. But I think I’ve made my point. Brooks’s entire argument rests on the false assumption that religious conservatives are sincere people and that their attacks on sexual freedom flow from a devotion to an otherwise loving faith. This is false. Religious conservatives are reactionaries, mostly white, who adopt the mantle of religion to justify bigoted beliefs and to create a false narrative of victimization. Religion is the best vehicle for this, because it allows them to cultivate these beliefs without having to defend them. Everything is just, “Because God said.” It’s a bunch of people who don’t have a good argument for begrudging others food in their mouths, beds under their asses, and a right to plan our own sex and reproductive lives. So they just say that some magical asshole in the sky said so.

Which is why they are never, ever going to do the right thing. I doubt they see the point of religion if it’s to do the moral thing. You can do the moral thing all on your own, just because it’s the right thing to do. For them, Jesus is only handy because he provides cover to be an asshole and claim it’s “faith”. That’s that. If you don’t get this, you don’t understand the first thing about 21st century American politics.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/uh-no-the-fire-and-brimstone-people-arent-going-to-start-feeding-and-clothing-the-poor/

[randys1]

1. THis part is perfect

Which is why they are never, ever going to do the right thing.

exactly

[enough]

2. The fire and brimstone people have NEVER been the ones feeding and clothing the poor.

Read Dickens, read Charlotte Bronte, etc. etc. etc.

[Kalidurga]

3. If there is a such thing as evil

Right wing conservative Republicans are it. They defend the Duggar family, Pat Robertson said that Haiti deserved their fate for getting rid of slavery, Akin and his legitimate rape theory, and the attitude that the working poor deserve to starve because they could have gotten a degree in engineering ( did a poll and they actually say that), they aren't particularly worried about children sleeping in cars either.