Who Really Cares?

Iniciado por renan_5 em 27/12/2008 · 5 mensagens

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Liberal secularist Scrooges shamed by generous Christian conservativesIt's official: bleeding-heart liberals give much less to the needy than do supposedly hard-faced conservatives. In a comment piece in the New York Times - the house magazine of compassion-dripping liberals - Nicholas D Kristof has collated a swarm of data from recent researches and found it shames the left-wing, secularist Scrooges whose contributions to deserving causes are dwarfed by conservatives largely motivated by Christian charity.

Kristof cites the evidence in the book Who Really Cares? by Arthur Brooks, who found that households headed by conservatives give 30 per cent more to charity than households headed by liberals. Those findings, however, are kind to the left, compared to a study by Google which showed that average annual contributions to charity from conservatives were almost double those of liberals.

The "generosity index" of the Catalogue for Philanthropy finds that Republican "red states" are the most likely to donate to non-profit-making philanthropies; North-Eastern Democrat "blue states" are the least likely to give. Kristof, himself a liberal, is appealing to his fellow bleeding hearts to live up to their rhetoric and stop being tightwads.

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Brooks was astonished by his own findings. That was a trifle naive of him. Only those gullible enough to be deluded by liberal rhetoric, in America or anywhere else, could imagine it had any basis in reality. Liberals excel at talking the talk - just don't ask them to walk the walk. All the research showed that it was conservatives' religious convictions that motivated them to give so generously to those less fortunate than themselves.

The social engineering projects that liberals support, notably abortion and euthanasia, betray the essentially stony-hearted, compassionless vision of society that lies behind their façade of concern. Their real objective is to reorder society along lines of convenience - to eliminate unwanted babies, children with cleft palates, the dependent elderly - rather than succour the weak. No intelligent person needed confirmation of their lack of true charity, but it is nevertheless gratifying to see it scientifically recorded.

Christmas brings out their most Scrooge-like features in liberals and secularists. The only dim pleasure the festive season affords these Roundheads is the opportunity to ban Christmas decorations on Elfin-Safety grounds or prohibit a nativity play or carol service as an offence against "diversity". The message from the crib finds no response in those frosted hearts. Giving should be done involuntarily, through confiscatory taxation, is their philosophy.

They once banned mince pies in this country - 'nuff said? Blow a raspberry this Christmas at whey-faced Whigs and secularist Bah-Humbuggers - they are a blight on the festive landscape.

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"Is It just me?" - Gerald Warner
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2008…onservatives

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Complementando, trecho de entrevista do professor Olavo:
"ISTOÉ - A campanha contra a fome, promovida pelo sociólogo Betinho, seria uma destas reações emocionais?
Carvalho - Sou radicalmente contra esse tipo de coisa. Cria um estado de espírito contrário à capacidade privada de fazer caridade. Betinho é um dos grandes estrategistas da esquerda mundial. Em poucos anos, conseguiu criar uma identificação entre as reivindicações de esquerda e a caridade. Faz a imagem de um santo, quando se trata de um homem superficial. Ele aceitou o dinheiro dos banqueiros do bicho e todos os condenaram. Mas ele estava certo e foi vítima de seus adversários. Se mostrou inseguro e fez uma ridícula mea-culpa. Se conhecesse São Tomás de Aquino, saberia que estava certíssimo. Uma pesquisa da Globo mostrou que 93% da população é contra dar esmolas. Isso é fruto da campanha do Betinho."
link: http://pensadoresbrasileiros.home.comcast.net/~pensa…Polemica.htm

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Por fim, um artigo também do professor Olavo relacionado ao tema:
Pobreza e grossura
trecho: Sim, a caridade individual está em baixa. Os frutos da bondade humana não devem ir direto para o bolso do necessitado: devem ir para as ONGs e os órgãos públicos, sustentando funcionários e diretores, financiando movimentos políticos, pagando despesas de aluguel, administração, publicidade e transporte, para no fim, bem no fim, se sobrar alguma coisa, virar sopa dos pobres, diante das câmeras, para a glória de São Betinho.
http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/semana/grossura.htm

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