Reply #24: All my life, actually. :) [View All]

[Ladyhawk]

They don't care about unemployment, health care, education and other key issues. My mother blamed the unemployed for their unemployment. She blamed those without health care for their predicament. She only cared about education as far as it enforced her own narrow beliefs. The same could be said for nearly every other fundy I have had lunch with in my lifetime.

The "nicer" fundies make noises about being concerned about those issues, but they continue to vote Republican while their tithes and offerings go to make their church buildings nicer. No church I ever attended gave a flying fuck about the poor, the unemployed, the uninsured and the under-educated. Most didn't even have a food pantry.

In fact, before our falling out, I asked my fundy "friend" to help someone down on her luck. He said his church "wasn't equipped" to handle such a request. They could buy her food, but couldn't help her pay her bills. :eyes: She didn't need food. She needed money so the electric company wouldn't shut off her power. I contributed what I could. The fundy "friend" did, too, but unless he is guilted into helping, I have a feeling he doesn't. He won't go out of his way to help unless it involves soul-saving.

Yes, I am angry at this unfeeling mob of irrational radicals.