I think it's fucking gay that people think the church doing what Jesus told it to do (help the poor) somehow makes it invalid, as if Jesus gave two shits about our gay modern day political system. Obviously, I think that it's possible and even preferable to help the poor where they're at vs moving them to Europe and America, but I'm all for helping the poor and that criticism is usually levied by neocons, Jewish, and evangelicals who are mad that the Vatican, flawed though it may be, does not buy into their retarded "immenize the eschaton" death cult
The issue is that you can't help people that won't help themselves. The poor (whites, spics, asians, ect) in the US actually
worked. They're willing to work to ensure their families had a better chance at the American Dream. The poor in third world countries (or counties in the US), more often than not,
want to be poor. They don't want to better themselves, because that would imply that they don't work hard enough (they don't) while also believing they should be granted gibs because of...divine right, or some such nonsense.
The poor of the third world are
addicted to being given gibs, and mind you, through no fault of our own considering our first overtures were trying to set up farming and railroads and industry...which has all failed after only a generation, maybe two if there were enough whites and the occasional educated native left.
Jesus accepts people who turn to him, people who
try to be better than our wrath and greed and pride. It takes
work to be a good Christian. An understanding of who you are, and who you can be. It is genuinely one of the most positive views of people and humanity as a whole out of any religion. It is, genuinely, a wonderful religion that seeks not domination, but leadership, and promotes understanding not of vices but of people in a way that does not diminish their capabilities nor their need to be forgiven for doing wrong. Unfortunately, none of the work nor desire to be better exists in the societies that both the nations and the Christians of the world have been trying to help for literal centuries now.
