The Death of Christianity, Revisited

I've often labeled the modern Christian Republican as a three headed monster, a mutilated whisper of Christian teachings.  The first head is an anti-Abortion head, screaming about how ending abortion is the only thing that's important.  The second head is the anti-GLBTQ head, screaming about how all those people fall outside of Jesus' commands to love and welcome each other.  The third head is a money worshipping head, where money equals divinity and piety, where the amount of money in one's bank accounts dictates how much Jesus has blessed the individual.

It's apparent there's a fourth head.  This head exists for the sole purpose of validating Republican political positions, no matter how anti-Christian they are.  If they're too outside Christian doctrine, the head buries itself in the ground, still and quiet, hoping no one dares asks how they can support a person who believes the exact opposite of Christian teachings.

Trump released his Federal budget plan and it was everything I expected.  He's getting rid of, or dramatically decreasing the funding for, almost every program and safety net for middle and lower class Americans, while ensuring massive tax payer funded paychecks go to the wealthiest Americans, for no other reason outside of them being wealthy.  It's not only robbing from the poor to give to the rich, it's robbing from every American who makes less than 200K a year to give to the ultra-rich.  This level of anti-Christianity in a single bill is astounding.

I could focus on numerous elements of the bill (Spoiler alert: all you fools in rural American who voted for this clown saying, "he won't do anything bad to us," do I have a surprise for you!) but I want to direct my words to three specific budget cuts, and the insane level of quiet coming from Christian Republicans in response to those proposed cuts.

The first is how the Trump budget eliminates the Low Income Heating Assistance Program.  There's nothing Christian about letting poor people freeze to death.  A struggling family has to make the choice between food and keeping their house warm.  They go the food route (those greedy bastards), huddling under multiple blankets in an effort to stay warm.  This isn't some war torn country where the electric and gas infrastructure has been annihilated.  This is Trump's America!  He, and the Republicans, have said, "We don't care."

Second is the elimination of all Federal funding for Meals on Wheels.  Meals on Wheels feeds 2.5 million Americans a year; the elderly, the poor, veterans, the disabled and others who can't leave their home.  The ending of the block grant won't kill all of it's funding, but it will dramatically decrease it.  One thing this cut will do is kill a few people.  It will.  I've worked with Meals on Wheels and for many of the people who receive the food, it's the ONLY food they get in a given day, and many times the only companionship these people receive as well.  This is Trump's America!  He, and the Republicans, have said, "We don't care."

Third are the cuts to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, or WIC.  This isn't a steep cut, but it's still reduced by $150 million dollars.  This means there are going to be women who won't be able to keep up with their basic nutritional needs.  This means there are going to be children who won't be able to keep up with their basic nutritional needs.  And this means there are going to be infants who won't be able to keep up with their basic nutritional needs.  This is Trump's America!  He, and the Republicans, have said, "We don't care."

Focusing on the WIC cuts, and MN Republican Representative Steve Drazkowski's attempt to cut insurance coverage in Minnesota for pregnancy and child birth, it's apparent the pro-lifers in this country have become irrevocably broken.  They call the woman trying to avoid an unwanted pregnancy, who asks for cheaper, easier to attain birth control, a slut.  They offer little to no assistance to the pregnant woman during the 9 months leading up to birth, regardless of how complicated the pregnancy is.  They demand the pregnant woman work at least 40 hours a week up until their water breaks.  They then scream 'hallelujah' for three minutes while the baby is born, talking about Jesus' precious gift to us all.  Then they all sprint out the door, moments before the new mother is told child birth is an out-of-pocket medical expense, and she owes $250,000.  Don't worry!  Republican sponsored legislation will ensure the debt will haunt her and her kids for life!  And pro-lifers will make sure the baby and the mother have no medical, employment, daycare or nutritional assistance, while they gleefully label them 'lazy moochers wasting tax payer dollars.'

They're not pro-life, in any sense of the word.  They're pro baby being born, and that's it.

To recap, in the last 6 months, Christians who still endorse Trump have had to:

1) Ignore their candidate's undeniable mocking of a handicapped person.
2) Stand by a guy who used the phrase "Grab them by the Pussy," who then went on to further describe his personal experiences of sexually assaulting women.
3) Ignore at the multitude of teachings throughout the Bible about welcoming in refugees, just to placate an irrational fear fueled by evil people with a racist and bigoted agenda.
4) Endorse a health care bill which goes out of it's way to hurt the people most in need of medical coverage.
5) Embrace a budget bill which purposely tries to hurt the poor for the benefit of the rich.

You can't look at this budget and claim it's Christian.  You just can't.  You can't consider yourself Christian if you sit quietly, saying nothing as the government does a lot of VERY anti-Christian things.  If you do, you're not a Christian, you're a heretic.

May Jesus make sure this budget never comes to fruition.  Amen!