Welfare and God

The label “entitlement” is being used by conservative Christians for Medicare and Social Security.  “Entitlement” is usually used as a label of nastiness.  It seems one step removed from “welfare”.  We know about “welfare moms” [sneer, sneer], and how lazy people on welfare are.  They want someone else to pay their bills.  How awful.  They want others to do for them what they should be able to do for themselves.

And yet these conservative Christians pray.  They ask God, or Jesus, or the Holy Spirit, to do  things for them.  

• “Heal my child.”  
• “Help me get the job I want/need.”  
• “Watch over Aunt Madge.”  
• “Fill me, Lord.”
• This list seems endless.

Sounds like hypocrisy to me.  They want welfare.  They want someone else (God) to do things for them, to provide things for them, that they should provide for themselves.  

Amazing.  Even more amazingis this.  God invites us to pray.  Jesus commanded his followers to pray.  He taught people to seek welfare.

Could this conservative sneer be a sign of selfishness and disobedience.  We really don’t want to be like God, and like God wants us to be? 
Oh.  Medicare?  Social Security.  We who receive their benefits paid into them for years.  Often that Social Security deduction really, really hurt.  Of course we are entitled!


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