Die! You un-American Swine (or Who Cares If You Have the H1N1 Virus, You Bum)

When did the number one, absolute priority in this country become, making sure that not one person whether man, woman, or child gets anything they haven’t earned? I understand the logic behind this kind of reasoning, and I understand the necessity for people to work for what they get. However we as a nation have adopted a new cause, “Do what needs to be done to be certain (even if it punishes the hard worker down on his or her luck) that nobody gets anything they don’t deserve.” Allowing people to live off of the system undeservedly is a problem, I get that.

Some people in this country take advantage of the wealth we possess and the grace we as a nation provide to those in need. I understand all of this, but with our problems in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, the credit crisis, cancer, obesity, aids, global warming, illegal immigration, poverty, prison overpopulation, government and police corruption, the San Francisco 49ers lack of decent talent, the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on poverty, the war on liberalism, the war on Obama, record high unemployment, falling home values, and out of control medical costs to name a few, why has our focus shifted to making sure that nobody gets a free lunch? When did we start throwing the baby out with the bathwater on this issue? Somewhere in our history we became a culture that would rather see a bum starve than widows eat. Today it is more satisfying for us ideologically to prevent someone from receiving a hand out needlessly than to give something to those in need. When did it become better to see thousands of those who are undeserving die from sickness, than see one helpless soul live in peace? In a nation that overwhelmingly calls it self God fearing and Christian, this amazes me.

As believers we have received so much we don’t deserve. If we truly believe in God then we understand that we are nothing more than a people that have received the greatest entitlement ever given. We have been given eternal life through no sacrifice of our own. All we have to do is ask for it and we get it. We receive this great hand out on the shoulders of great sacrifice. Not our sacrifices mind you, but the sacrifice of another. We are granted this on the blood of someone else’s suffering. It would seem to me that before we judge others for accepting what they do not deserve, simply because it is made available, we should consider those gifts that we have also received and accepted whole heartedly, undeservedly, and without regret, solely on the grace and love of another.