What is your Christian response to this?

Luk 6:24 ¶ But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.


Luk 6:25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.


Luk 6:26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.


Luk 6:27 ¶ But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,


Luk 6:28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.


Luk 6:29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the [one] cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not [to take thy] coat also.


Luk 6:30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask [them] not again.


Luk 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.


Luk 6:32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.


Luk 6:33 And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.


Luk 6:34 And if ye lend [to them] of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.


Luk 6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and [to] the evil.


Luk 6:36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

The whole general beliefs expressed by most conservatives today seem to go against the teachings of Christ. Perhaps they think the needs of the poor and needy can be taken care of voluntarily rather than by the government thus in keeping with the teachings of Christ. I think that taking care of the needy and the poor can be more efficient through the government rather than relying on the iffy generosity of volunteers. Moreover, lately in these debates the statements from various republicans concerning the poor and the needy have not really reflected the teachings of the Christ, IMO.

We all have different beliefs.

The whole general beliefs expressed by most conservatives today seem to go against the teachings of Christ.

I think that taking care of the needy and the poor can be more efficient through the government rather than relying on the iffy generosity of volunteers.

The big difference between my thinking and many others is, I think people who labor hard in the field {construction workers, factory workers and so on} should be rewarded far greater than what they are and the government should be there to help many of them who are intellectually challenged from making grave mistakes in finance and other areas of life that they may not be intellectually able to manage.

If you can find where Jesus addressed, in The Gospel, the issue of the relative efficiency of personal and governmental charity then you are quite the Biblical scholar.

From your citations, it seems Luke might have been the original Occupier.

My bet is that you have no idea of what conservative Christians think or do about charity, and so your impression is suspect at best

"Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks -- if you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!" Herman Cain

Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, said minorities earn less than white people because they don’t work as hard and have less initiative.
“We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and that’s tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they don’t want to study as hard in school? I’ve taught school, and I saw a lot of people of color who didn’t study hard because they said the government would take care of them.

"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals," Bauer told an audience in the town of Fountain Inn, according to the Greenville News. "You know why? Because they breed."

"You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply," Bauer continued. "They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better."Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer

Without doubt, I'm sure that there are people who express their "Christianity" only in terms of same sex marriage and school prayer, but your suggestion is that this is the rule and not the exception.

Seems pretty judgmental, and I thought Christians deferred to God when it came to judging.

Didn't Jesus say something about people in glass houses throwing stones?

The strange thing is I bet that most democrats would agree that everyone should work if they are capable, even if they are in a wheelchair, a telephone could be directed to their resident and they could be an answering service or something different. I also bet that most dems would think they should be paid a living wage and not be taken advantage of.

sometimes even a person in a wheelchair may have other health problems which would either prevent them from working at all or enough hours to sustain them without some kind of assistance. Every case is different and there is a lot of waste and fraud but I think they have been working on rooting that out in the last decade.

We have great problems with our society that if things were managed by political scientist and social engineers and not political engineers things would be more prosperous for the the majority instead of the minority of the wealthy.

I admit you went over my head, don't really understand,