The mayor of San Antonio told a group of conservative Christians that she believes poor people are responsible for their own poverty.
Mayor Ivy Taylor spoke earlier this month to the Christian Coalition, the successor to the nonprofit political organization founded by Pat Robertson, where the 46-year-old Democrat was asked to comment on “systemic causes of generational poverty, reported the Huffington Post.
“Since you’re with the Christian Coalition, I’ll go ahead and put it out there that to me, it’s broken people,” Taylor said. “People not being in a relationship with their creator and therefore not being in a good relationship with their families and their communities and not being productive members of society.”
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You sure about that Ivy? I'm not much of a bible reader, but I recall some things like... it being easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than the rich being able to get into the kingdom of God, blesses are the poor for they shall inherit the kingdom of God, Jesus telling some guy who wanted to get into heaven to sell all of his possessions and give to the poor, ect.
Might wanna rethink your choice of religion.
Ms. Taylor doesn't understand her own religion. I, for one, am outlandishly shocked by that.
Not everyone can be wealthy, or even comfortable. Pensioners, people with serious disabilities who live on the pitiable amount they receive.
Did the poor widow with her mites face censure?
In Matthew 5:45, on whom does the rain fall?
" “People not being in a relationship with their creator and therefore not being in a good relationship with their families and their communities and not being productive members of society.” "
Or maybe you were manipulated into putting a kleptocracy in power for the past 35 years.
Timothy 2:12 as I previously stated but another one
Matthew 25:41 also proves she needs compassion for poor (and coincidentally I find that my favourite verse in Bible)
Ezekiel 16:45-49
Proverbs 31:8-9
Proverbs 22:22-23
Ah, the prosperity gospel. Still bullshit no matter who speaks it.
Ever been poor? I doubt it. You know nothing about life at the bottom of society, and I doubt you want to because then, you'd have to rethink many of your positions on life. Faith does not create wealth (except for things like Pat Robertson).
Employers paying sub living wages has nothing to do with it. Children growing up in poverty without adequate nutrition or stimulation during their formative years has nothing to do with it. Our absolute refusal to honor the social contract has nothing to do with it. No, people are poor because they don't have the right relationship with your imaginary friend.
politician pandering to a church? yeah, no, we can't trust a word of that to be true in any sense. other than the "this politician thinks these words will convince this lot of bigots to vote for them" sense; that much may be true, but no more.
I'm not "in a relationship with my creator" (if by that you mean a god, and not my parents).
According to the Mayor here, I (and almost everyone else in Sweden) ought to be poor and burdens to society. But, funnily enough, Sweden's economy is going great, and it has one of the highest standards of living in the world.
To me, it's people born to poor parents, who have little or no chance to advance in society due to systemic poverty. Rich people are responsible for poor people's poverty.
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The fallacy of composition: if one person can pull themselves up, everyone can pull themselves up. Sorry, Ivy - it's like musical chairs: one person can work hard and grab a chair, but that doesn't create another chair; it just lets him take one from someone else. If 10 million unemployed people all got PhDs, would ten million currently non-existent jobs suddenly appear out of thin air for them? No; they'd just push another 10 million down the ladder because the high paying jobs don't exist . Capiche?
Meanwhile, rich non Christian and non religious people all over the world, many of them donating money to real beneficial causes.
But “Since you’re with the Christian Coalition," I know I can bullshit you and plead to your sense of superiority and being Gods favorites, y'all completely trained to that. They say this knowing that at least 20% of the crowds they speak to don't have jobs and are living on old money or the system.
That Foot-in-Mouthitis is infectious!
You must have caught it from Mitt Romney. The incubation is a few years, I've heard.
Was your J-boy rich? Because from my reading of your Bible, all he owned was the clothes on his back.
Giving people medical treatment for nothing. Did he charge those 5,000 people for that fish & bread meal...?!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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