My un-Christian thoughts for the Day

I took July off- not intentionally but too many things either disinterested me or were talked/blogged to death and I was bored...

I'm waiting for Mad Men to start and there is nothing on TV. I got stuck watch "Extreme Makeover" and tonight's episode angered me. It was about the something family and they are poor and struggling because they run a soup kitchen and make no money. So ABC swoops in and builds a house, pays their mortgage and finds 5 18-wheelers full of food for their "work".

Sounds nice, right?

It's my belief that these actions are to a certain extent "un-Christian" and I know that's a tough stand to defend. But here goes:

1. Regarding the soup kitchen these people run. What love for mankind is there in fostering dependency? Does that respect their dignity? Does it treat them as equals? Often times charity makes us feel good but doesn't really DO any good. It may relieve a temporary problem but it has no long-term viability.

The thousands of people (that's what they claim) who go to this food pantry have been robbed of their adulthood. Of their maturity. It treats them as perpetual children and dependents.

That is un-Christian.

2. This family has brought misery to itself. And now there is nothing inherantly Christian about that... one may feel a sense of martyrdom, but I can also cut myself and cry to the Lord that I am bleeding for Him. Makes no sense.

Charity is important and necessary. And no doubt people fall on hard time and need temporary assistance. But temporary. If your career is feeding people, you just perpetuate a cycle of poverty that will not end.

This administration acts in a similar manner. By creating a government benevolence that encompasses education, housing bailouts, credit card debt relief, food stamps, etc etc etc... they create a class of dependents. A class of children who must nurse at the government's teet for sustainance.

And there is nothing noble about that. Nor Christian. Nor dignified.

The people tonight on ABC are misguided, but probably good intentioned. The Obama administration is not misguided and has nefarious intentions. They know what they are doing and do it willfully because a class of people dependent on their government will keep them in power forever. And that is always the goal of the left: power.

We need to learn self-sufficiency. A mother bird throws its chick out of the nest. If only we would do the same.