Re: If your heart doesn’t break for asylum seekers, you may have a spiritual heart condition
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 5:16 pm
I can't answer for all liberals and admittedly I'm probably a little unique. I grew up in a Christian household who took 10% tithe seriously and expanded that ideal to 10% of time volunteering. While I'm no longer Christian, my family is still really committed to that degree of giving, if not more. I would consider us lower middle class but we donate 10% of our income. We volunteer regularly - currently with organizations who focus on food security and those who assist asylum seekers. I've never had a soy milk latte, blue hair dye, expensive clothes, etc. and we've chosen to give up cable. Don't take my avocado toast away!water<wine wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 4:13 pmanswer honestly, how much of your money goes to charity? how much could you cut to help others.msb64 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 3:09 pm "We have developed a heart condition in America and in the American church. Our hearts have become hardened to the hurt in our world.
I’m not saying this to shame but to state what has happened as a result of the constant bombardment of bad news coming at us in images and interviews and analysis 24/7. It hurts too much to feel all the pain in the world and so we have turned off our feelings, shut them down, in order to keep on keeping on."
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm ... OFk92i9iQ0
think about this- give up all luxuries, downgrade your home, give up your car and walk, go vegetarian, give up all materialism.
you'd save thousands of dollars a year and you could give all of that to people living in severe poverty all over the world. but you wont.
the average bleeding heart lib will not give up their soy milk lattes, avocado toast, blue hair dye, expensive clothes, accessories, homes, cars, cable, Iphones, Mac computers, $100k college educations etc for complete strangers. they will NOT invite desperate strangers into their homes.
hell they wont even give a dollar to the homeless masses in their own cities. so excuse me if this seems like emotional manipulation to me.